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Leasing Activity Continues at LEED Gold-Certified 7 World Trade Center

Wed

Jul

Steve Cuozzo reported earlier this week in the Post that Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) is heading downtown from West 57th Street to sublease 58,000 square feet on the 30th and 31st floors of 7 World Trade Center from Dutch bank ABN Amro, which signed up for 140,000 square feet 3 years ago but never moved into the space. Italian insurer Generali will take 17,000 square feet from ABN, and two undisclosed financial services firms are close to signing deals for the remaining space. Cuozzo notes these transactions in the context of 7 World Trade Center's "continued appeal even as demand for downtown office space has lagged amid expectations that huge amounts of space will soon be put up for grabs by such firms as Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch." How much of that appeal stems from its LEED certification is difficult to quantify, but it's clear that Larry Silverstein is enjoying a competitive advantage in an incredibly challenging commercial leasing market thanks, in some part, to his tower's green design features.

Richard Rogers Selected to Design LEED Gold 20 Times Square Above World's Fifth Ugliest Building

Mon

Nov

by Stephen Del Percio

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Back in July, we called Richard Rogers’ design for a proposed LEED for Core and Shell ("LEED-CS") Gold office tower above the Port Authority Bus Terminal at 42nd Street and 8th Avenue the "most ambitious" of the three concepts presented by his firm, KPF, and Pelli Clarke Pelli. Today, the Port Authority announced that Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners of London has been selected as the architect for the project, and also released an updated rendering of the proposed 42-story, 1.3 million-square-foot tower. Rogers, of course, also designed Tower 3 at the World Trade Center site (175 Greenwich Street) which will similarly seek a LEED Gold rating from USGBC.

Port Authority Releases Renderings for Proposed LEED Gold 20 Times Square

Thu

Jul

by Stephen Del Percio

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At a meeting held earlier today, the Port Authority unveiled renderings from three firms for 20 Times Square, the 1.3 million-square foot, 42-story LEED (for Core and Shell) Gold tower that Vornado Realty Trust and Ruben Cos. plan to co-develop above the north wing of the agency’s Bus Terminal on 8th Avenue.