World Financial Center
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The World Financial Center is a complex of buildings across West Street from the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan, New York City This complex is home to offices of major corporations including Merrill Lynch, American Express, Lehman Brothers, among others.
The complex was built by Olympia and York between 1985 and 1988 on landfill used to build Battery Park City. It was designed by César Pelli. The fill material is made up of dirt excavated during the building of the World Trade Center, as well as garbage, dirt and debris.
It was severely damaged in the September 11 terrorist attacks but has since been reopened after significant repairs.
Buildings
- One World Financial Center (1986), height 577 ft (176 m), 40 stories
- *Address: 200 Liberty Street
- *Leasable area: 1,628,000 ft² (151,000 m²)
- *Rooftop: square, sloping top
- *Tenants
- **Cadwalader, Wickersham, and Taft
- **Deloitte and Touche
- **Dow Jones & Co.
- **Fidelity Investments
- **Lehman Brothers
- **National Financial Services
- Two World Financial Center (1987), height 645 ft (197 m), 44 stories
- *Address: 225 Liberty Street
- *Leasable area: 2,491,000 ft² (231,000 m²)
- *Rooftop: round dome
- *Tenants
- **Commerzbank
- **Deloitte & Touche
- **Merrill Lynch
- **Nomura Group
- **State Street Corporation
- **Thacher, Proffitt & Wood LLP
- Three World Financial Center (1985), height 739 ft (225 m), 51 stories
- *Address: 200 Vesey Street
- *Leasable area: 1,200,000 ft² (111,000 m²)
- *Rooftop: pyramid
- *Tenants
- **American Express
- **BearingPoint (effective Oct 2006)
- **Morgan & Finnegan, LLP (intellectual property botique law firm)
- **Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Four World Financial Center (1986) height 500 ft (152 m), 34 stories
- *Address: 250 Vesey Street
- *Leasable area: 1,800,000 ft² (167,000 m²)
- *Rooftop: square, with several "steps"
- *Tenants
- **Merrill Lynch 100%
- Winter Garden (1988) a glass pavilon housing various plants, trees and flowers, also shopping areas, cafes (located between buildings 2 and 3) Rebuilt after terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
- *Leasable area: 295,000 ft² (27,000 m²)
- *Tenants
- **Ann Taylor
- **Banana Republic
- **Eckerd
- **The Gap
- **Hallmark
- **Starbucks
- NYMEX building (1997) 16 stories
- *Address: 1 North End Avenue
- *Leasable area: 500,000 ft² (46,000 m²)
- *Tenants
- **New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX)
- **New York Board of Trade (NYBOT)
External links
- [Brookfield: New York Properties]
- [The World Financial Center | Maps & Directions]
- [The World Trade Center Map]
- [Morgan & Finnegan, LLP: WFC 3 Tenant]
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