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24 Ø N THE TIMES METRO SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2004

CITY A Status Report: As Lower Rebuilds, a New Map Takes Shape

By DAVID W. DUNLAP and GLENN COLLINS Below are projects in and around ground DEVELOPMENT PLAN zero and where they stood as of Friday. Embassy Goldman Suites Hotel/ Sachs Bank of New York BUILDINGS UA Battery Park Building Technology and On the theater site 125 Operations Center PARKS

GREENWICH ST. 75 Park Place Barclay St. 101 Barclay St. (A) FREEDOM TOWER / TOWER 1 2 MURRAY ST. Former site of 6 World Trade Center, the 6 Custom House 0Feet 200 Today, the cornerstone will be laid for this WEST , with about 60,000 square feet of retail space at its base, followed by 2.6 mil- Fiterman Hall, lion square feet of office space on 70 stories, 9 Borough of topped by three stories including an obser- Manhattan PARK PL. vation deck and restaurants. Above the en- 4 World 140 West St. Community College closed portion will be an open-air structure Financial 3 5 with wind turbines and television antennas. Center 7 World The governor’s office is a prospective ten- VESEY ST. BRIDGE Trade Center 100 Church St. ant. Occupancy is expected in late 2008. The WASHINGTON ST. 7 cost of the tower, apart from the infrastruc- 3 World 8 BARCLAY ST. ture below, is estimated at $1 billion to $1.3 Financial Center billion. The developer, World Trade Center (American Properties, an affiliate of Larry A. Silver- Express Tower) 99 Church St. stein’s , says it will be Freedom TTowerower Former Federal financed with insurance proceeds, but the 1 (T(Towerower 1) 10 Office Building and total pool available to Mr. Silverstein has U.S. Post Office Woolworth shrunk because of his losses in a legal battle A 90 Church St. Building with insurers. Tishman Construction Corpo- Winter 4 Performing St. Peter’s Church ration is the builder. The architects are Garden World Arts Center VESEY ST. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, working with Financial Studio and the Cantor Sei- Center B nuk Group, engineers. TTowerower 2 (B) PERFORMING ARTS CENTER and Hotel E Former site of 6 World Trade Center, the United States Custom House 2 World Financial The Joyce Theater Foundation and the WEST ST. (ROUTE 9A) Signature Theater Company were offered Center WEDGE OF LIGHT PLAZA space in this 250,000-square-foot project by the Development Corpo- St. Paul’s ration. Joyce envisions a theater of 900 to Chapel Cultural Center/ TTransportationransportation FULTON ST. 1,000 seats. Signature would have three Sept. 1111 Place Hub 11 theaters, with 499 seats, 299 seats and 99 to WorldWorld TradeTrade Center F 199 seats. Completion is expected by 2009. A Site Memorial/ C Millenium planning and design study is now being con- Memorial Center Hilton Hotel ducted. The cost has not been determined. Financing is to come from the development D 12 corporation, foundations and private contri- butions. The design and construction team DEY ST. will be selected in early fall. TowerTower 3

(C) CULTURAL CENTER / SEPT. 11 PLACE G 22 Fulton St. Former site of Austin J. Tobin Plaza Cortlandt Transit Center The Drawing Center and the Freedom 14 St. Center were offered space by the develop- LIBERTY ST. RAMP 13 Century 21 ment corporation on a parcel with 250,000 SOUTH BRIDGE square feet of cultural space in one or two SOUTH END AVE. Corbin CORTLANDT ST. Building buildings. There will also be a 12,562-square- TowerTower 4 foot plaza. The Freedom Center, founded by Tom A. Bernstein and Peter W. Kunhardt 21 H JOHN ST. expressly for the trade center site, says it St. Nicholas 1 World Greek Orthodox will focus on “humankind’s enduring quest Financial Church LIBERLIBERTYTY PPARKARK for freedom.” The Drawing Center’s galler- Center CHURCH ST. 1 Liberty Plaza/ ies and program space would replace its 20 Brooks Brothers current home in SoHo. A planning and de- 90 West St. CEDAR ST. 17 15 sign study is now being conducted. Financ- MAIDEN LA. ing is to come from the development corpo- 19 LIBERTY ST. 125 Cedar St. BROADWAY ration, foundations and private contribu- TTowerower 5 (site of tions. The design and construction team will ALBANY ST. Deutsche Bank be selected in early fall. Building) Engine Co. 10, (D) WORLD TRADE CENTER SITE MEMORIAL 18 Ladder Co. 10 ALBANY ST. GREENWICH ST. Former site of 1 and 2 World Trade Cen- 16 ter, the north and south towers, and 3 World THAMES ST. Trade Center, the New York Marriott NASSAU ST. Construction is to begin in 2006 on this four-acre landscaped plaza with water-filled voids marking the outlines of the twin tow- ers, a plan called “Reflecting Absence.” John Papasian/ Around the voids will be inscribed the names of all victims of Feb. 26, 1993, and ways; connections to the A, C, E, R and W Around the Trade Center site (7) ciates, Daniel Frankfurt, Lee Harris Pom- Sept. 11, 2001. Completion is expected by platforms and the Fulton Street Transit AND CON ED SUBSTATION eroy Associates and M.T.A. staff members. Steel has reached the 32nd floor of this 52- 2009. The architects are Handel Architects Center; and a possible AirTrain terminus. It (1) WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER (14) CENTURY 21 (, a partner, was co-winner of is being built by the Port Authority. Financ- The glass-domed 10-story Winter Garden story, $700 million, 1.7-million-square-foot The hyper-bustling clothing store at 22 the design competition) and Peter Walker & ing is to come from the Federal Transit Ad- atrium was badly damaged and the North office building developed by Silverstein Cortlandt Street reopened in March 2002 af- Partners (the other co-winner), in associa- ministration and the authority. The design Bridge to the World Trade Center was de- (which will move its offices here) and con- ter a $10 million refurbishing. structed by Tishman on land owned by the tion with Davis Brody Bond. and engineering team includes Santiago stroyed. After the installation of 2,000 win- (15) 1 LIBERTY PLAZA / BROOKS BROTHERS Beneath the memorial plaza will be an un- Calatrava, DMJM + Harris and STV. To be dows and 1.2 million pounds of stone, the Port Authority. It is to be finished by early 2006. The architects are Skidmore, Owings This 54-story building lost 650 windows derground interpretive museum of about completed in 2009, it will replace the $323 atrium reopened in September 2002. The $50 and had to be cleared of debris. The $23 mil- 80,000 square feet, which will include histori- million, 250,000-square-foot temporary ter- million rehabilitation was designed by & Merrill, working with James Carpenter Design Associates and Cantor Seinuk. Two lion refurbishing by Turner Construction cal artifacts from the trade center. An advi- minal that opened in November 2003, restor- Cesar Pelli & Associates and built by Turner was completed in October 2001. In its button- sory panel has recommended a “signpost ing New Jersey rail commuter service to Construction Company for Brookfield Prop- months ago, power began flowing through a new substation at the base of the tower, down way, Brooks Brothers reopened with- and icon” at street level. The architects, en- Lower Manhattan. The designer was Robert erties. The four office towers were show- which has three 80-megawatt transformers out fanfare on Sept. 11, 2002. The 2.2 million- gineers and construction manager have yet I. Davidson, chief architect of the Port Au- ered with debris. One of them, the American square-foot tower, owned by Brookfield to be chosen. Together, the memorial and Express Tower, suffered structural damage and room for seven more. Its cost is esti- thority, working with the engineer Jerrold mated at $100 million. Properties, is now 78 percent occupied. memorial center will cost $340 million. The Dinkels and the Pentagram design studio. and did not reopen until April 2002. The fi- money is to be raised by the World Trade nancial center will be 88 percent occupied (8) PARK (16) LIBERTY PARK (EXISTING) (G) TOWER 3 Center Site Memorial Foundation, for which by the end of the year. A 12,500-square-foot privately owned pub- The lifelike “Double Check” sculpture of a Former site of lic park is being designed by Ken Smith for businessman, by J. Seward Johnson Jr., no head has been chosen. The Lower Man- (2) GOLDMAN SACHS BUILDING hattan Development Corporation will pro- The third tower would be about 62 stories, Silverstein. A block of will once sat here amid honey locust trees. A re- with 1.9 million square feet of office space Goldman Sachs plans a 40-story, nearly design is under way for this 26,000-square- vide some of the financing. two-million-square-foot headquarters in be recreated as a roadway for taxis and lim- and about 126,000 square feet of retail space, ousines. Tishman will build the $3.5 million foot public space, which is part of 1 Liberty (E) TOWER 2 AND HOTEL by 2008, designed by Pei which will probably be built first and re- park beginning next year, with completion Plaza and owned by Brookfield. Former site of main as a low-rise building for years. Ab- Cobb Freed & Partners. It would cost more The second tower would be about 65 expected in early 2006. (17) ENGINE CO. 10, LADDER CO. 10 sent an office tenant, the prospects for the than $1 billion, which the company is hoping stories tall, with 2.2 million square feet of of- (9) FITERMAN HALL The fire companies lost two lieutenants tower are distant. to finance largely through Liberty Bonds. fice space and about 57,000 square feet of re- The company is negotiating with the Bat- In February, the president of the Borough and three firefighters in the attack. The tail space. The retail base is likely to be con- (H) TOWER 4 tery Park City Authority to lease the site. of Manhattan Community College, Antonio damaged building reopened in November structed first and may remain as a low-rise Former site of 4 World Trade Center Pérez, said this damaged 15-story class- 2003 after a $3.5 million rehabilitation by (3) BRIDGE Prendergast Laurel Architects. building for several years. This is seen as The fourth tower would be about 58 A $15 million temporary span, designed room building would be replaced by a larger the likeliest location for an anchor store. Ad- stories, with 1.7 million square feet of office by Earth Tech and built by the State Trans- structure, a project that might cost $180 mil- (18) , joining the tower may be a 25-story hotel space and 127,500 square feet of retail space portation Department, opened in November lion. Since then, the project seems to have 130 LIBERTY STREET / FUTURE TOWER 5 with 800 rooms. Mr. Silverstein controls de- on three levels, which will probably be built 2003. been caught in a stalemate among officials. By winter, dismantling is to begin on this velopment rights to all the office buildings first and remain as a low-rise building for (10) 40-story building, originally 1 Bankers Trust on the site, but it is uncertain how he would years. Absent an office tenant, the prospects (4) WEST STREET-ROUTE 9A Plaza, which was badly damaged. The Low- The State Transportation Department UNITED STATES POST OFFICE finance the construction or when it would for the tower are distant. This month, tenants will return to the im- er Manhattan Development Corporation begin. Tension over money between Mr. Sil- plans to rebuild Route 9A between West awarded the $45 million contract to the Gil- UNDERGROUND posing 15-story former Federal Office verstein and the Port Authority of New Thames and Chambers Streets, part of bane Building Company, working with Con- Cooling plant: Air-conditioning for all the Building for the first time since Sept. 11. The York and New Jersey, which owns the site, which is now a temporary six-lane roadway. trolled Demolition Inc. The dismantling is to buildings on the site would be provided by a Alternatives under environmental review splendid post office off the lobby is might eventually lead to a reduced role for to reopen in August. The building, leased by be finished by the end of 2005. On this site, him. Silverstein has named three architects $200-million-to-$400-million central refrig- include restoring eight lanes at street level. the fifth new trade center tower would be eration plant of 50,000 to 60,000 square feet, This would cost $175 million. Gov. George E. an affiliate of Properties from the for the rest of the center — Norman Foster, Postal Service, was reconstructed and about 57 stories, with 1.6 million square feet. and Jean Nouvel — but they drawing water from the , reus- Pataki favors the so-called short bypass: ing existing intake and outflow pipes, sec- four lanes at street level and four lanes in a cleaned by Structure Tone, working with (19) have not been assigned specific projects. Pinnacle Environmental. The 1907 landmark created by the archi- tions of which are still visible. Shopping con- tunnel from Vesey Street to Liberty or Ce- tect is undergoing a $145 mil- (F) TRANSPORTATION HUB course: In addition to retail space above dar Street. This would cost $860 million. A (11) ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL lion restoration and reconstruction, partly AND WEDGE OF LIGHT PLAZA ground, plans call for stores underground, big fight over financing can be expected, Almost miraculously unscathed on 9/11, Construction is to begin next year on the financed with Liberty Bonds. A swarm of for a total of up to one million square feet. and the tunnel proposal has provoked loud this 18th-century landmark offered food, $2 billion permanent transportation hub, a hard hats is transforming the 23-story build- Westfield America, the former retail lease- opposition from transit and environmental shelter and care to rescue and recovery steel-and-glass canopy over a five-level, ing into a rental building with 410 apart- holder, has the right to make the first offer groups and neighbors. workers. It reopened in August 2002 and now 500,000-square-foot complex with platforms houses an exhibit, “Unwavering Spirit: ments, replacing the battered copper roof for the new lease. The ratio of retail at street (5) VERIZON BUILDING for PATH trains and the No. 1 and 9 sub- Hope and Healing at .” and repairing the ravaged terra-cotta fa- level and in the concourse is the subject of Visibly, at least, the gaping wounds in the cade. Partners include Henry Kibel, Peter debate between the Bloomberg administra- landmark building at 140 West Street, once (12) MILLENIUM HILTON HOTEL William Neuman and Michael Luo contrib- Levenson, Richard Born and Ira Drukier. the New York Telephone Company’s flag- Two-thirds of the glass front of the 58- uted reporting for this article. tion and the Port Authority. Truck security Completion is expected next year. and circulation system: Principal truck ac- ship, have been healed. The building was story hotel was damaged. In May 2003, after (20) LIBERTY PARK (NEW) Sources: Bank of New York, Borough of cess to the new trade center buildings will battered by three of its neighbors: the north a $31 million reconstruction by Bovis Lend Manhattan Community College, Boston and south towers of the World Trade Center Lease, 50 rooms reopened. Now all 565 A 29,766-square-foot park is planned and be through 2,000 feet of underground ramps, would link two blocks: one where St. Nicho- Properties, Corpora- beginning at a ramp on the north side of Lib- and 7 World Trade Center. Some 1,800 re- rooms are available, and the hotel has an 80 tion, Goldman Sachs, Lower Manhattan De- placement windows and 93 tons of structur- percent average occupancy. las Greek Orthodox Church stood, surround- erty Street, which leads to a security clear- ed by parking lots; the other, a two-level velopment Corporation, Millenium Hilton ance on the south side of the street. The al steel have been installed as part of a $140 (13) FULTON STREET TRANSIT CENTER Hotel, Port Authority of New York and New million project by Tishman. The number of public space, originally Bankers Trust Pla- ramp location faces strong opposition. Bus Not that the Fulton Street and Broadway- za, which was destroyed. Jersey, Silverstein Properties, Verizon, garage: Parking for up to 80 tourist buses is people working there will increase to 750 Nassau stations were damaged, but they are “World Trade Center Memorial and Re- (21) ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH to be created under either the Tower 4 or from 661 by the end of the year. to be linked in a far more open and airy $750 development Plan Final Environmental Im- The four-story Greek Orthodox church at Tower 5 sites. Subway tunnel: About 1,400 (6) BANK OF NEW YORK million transit center, which will also be pact Statement.” More than 1,600 windows (1,607, in fact) joined by a concourse under Dey Street to 155 Cedar Street was crushed by the south feet of the tunnel serving the No. 1 and 9 tower. A 5,200-square-foot interdenomina- On the Web: Rebuilding Lower Manhattan trains was destroyed, as was the Cortlandt were replaced in the 25-story building. It re- the trade center transportation hub. The A collection of articles and multimedia fea- opened in July 2002 after $19 million in res- project, by the Metropolitan Transportation tional center is to take its place and will in- Street 1 and 9 station. The tunnel was rebuilt clude a Greek Orthodox sanctuary. Plan- tures on the development of the World by Transit and reopened in toration and repairs, a project involving Authority, is to be finished in 2007. The de- Trade Center site can be found at both Tishman and Skidmore, Owings & Mer- sign and engineering team includes Grim- ning is by Nicholas P. Koutsomitis. An ar- September 2002, but the station remains chitectural competition may be held. nytimes.com/groundzero. closed. rill, the building’s original architects. shaw, Arup, James Carpenter Design Asso-