Episode 5 of the gbNYC Audiocast reviews the ongoing redevelopment efforts at the former World Trade Center site in light of recent remarks from Larry Silverstein about construction progress at the site, as well as uncertainty over the future of KPF’s Beer Belly Building in the aftermath of JPMorgan Chase’s pending acquisition of the failing Bear Stearns. As you’ll recall, in addition to the Freedom Tower, a number of high-profile towers that will pursue LEED certification are currently under construction at the site, including 200, 175, and 150 Greenwich Street, designed by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, and Fumihiko Maki, respectively. Episode 5 discusses each of these towers in detail, as well as the Robert A.M. Stern-designed Four Seasons Hotel which will rise at 99 Church Street.
March 24th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "green ground zero"
Excavation Complete, Silverstein Prepares to Break Ground at Gold Greenwich Towers
After completing excavation at 4 World Trade Center a month ago, the Port Authority on Wednesday finished excavation and foundation work at 3 World Trade Center. Respectively, the sites will be home to Fumihiko Maki’s 64-story, 975-foot minimalist 150 Greenwich Street and Richard Rogers’ 71-story, 1,147-foot 175 Greenwich Street. The Port Authority performed the work pursuant to the agreement that it entered into with Larry Silverstein back in 2006 (whereby Mr. Silverstein turned over the development of the Freedom Tower and Tower 5- the LEED Platinum Beer Belly Building- to the Port Authority in exchange for the right to build a trio of Greenwich Street towers). The Port Authority has now turned the sites back over to Mr. Silverstein after collectively excavating 400,000 tons of concrete, soil, and rock, as well as constructing an 80-foot deep foundation with 240 streel tiebacks.
February 22nd, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Deutsche Bank Demo to Resume; JPMorgan Still Hopes for Platinum Beer Belly Building to Rise at 5 WTC by September
On Tuesday, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (“LMDC”) announced that it reached an agreement with its construction manager, Bovis Lend Lease, to hire a new subcontractor that will complete demolition efforts at the former Deutsche Bank Building on 130 Liberty Street. Work at the site has stalled for close to five months now in the [...]
January 10th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Green Rising on the Downtown Horizon: Excavation for LEED Gold WTC Towers to Wrap Up by End of January
As we wrote about back in September, Silverstein Properties’ three LEED Gold towers planned for the former World Trade Center site are on the verge of climbing out of Greenwich Street. Today, GlobeSt.com reported that the year-long excavation work for the foundations of Towers 3 and 4 are currently within a few weeks of being [...]
January 2nd, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
LEED Gold Office Space Flying Off Shelf at 7 WTC
As we briefly noted late last week, Larry Silverstein has secured another tenant for LEED Gold 7 World Trade Center. Advertising firm Arnell Group will pay $70 per square foot for the entire 40,000 square feet on the building’s 37th floor. According to the New York Observer, only 440,000 square feet remain across 11 floors [...]
December 27th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
NYC’s LEED-Certified Office Inventory Evaporating: 11 Floors Remain at Gold 7 WTC
Looking for LEED-certified office space in New York City? Your task continues to get tougher after yesterday’s announcement that a mere eleven floors remain available at Larry Silverstein’s fifty-two story 7 World Trade Center in the wake of tech company NCR Corp.’s multi-year lease of the LEED Gold building’s thirty-fifth floor. The company will open [...]
October 17th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
KPF to Beer Belly Critics: Big is Beautiful, Functional
Gene Kohn, chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox, responded to some of the heavy criticisms that have been leveled at his firm’s design for JPMorgan Chase’s new LEED Platinum headquarters at 5 World Trade Center (dubbed the Beer Belly Building by the New York Post’s Steve Cuozzo) last month by conceding that “[t]he size of the [...]
August 22nd, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: Goldman Sachs’ Gold Headquarters in Battery Park City
Goldman Sachs broke ground on its new 740-foot, 42-story headquarters building- which will stand on the last available commercial development site in Battery Park City, just to the north of Cesar Pelli’s American Express Building along West Street between Vesey and Murray Streets- back in late 2005. Originally planned for occupancy in 2009, the project [...]
August 13th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued