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7 World Trade Center fully leased
By Steve Cuozzon | September 19, 2011
In a milestone for Downtown in the post-9/11 era, 7
World Trade Center - built by Larry Silverstein in the face of withering
criticism and claims it would be a "white elephant" - is now 100
percent leased.
Financial firm MSCI, now based at 1 Chase Plaza, has
leased 125,000 square feet in the tower's top floors, sources told The Post.
The 20-year lease means that the 1.3 million
square-foot skyscraper across from the actual WTC site is now full except for a
few tiny spaces almost too negligible to count.
The tower, built without any presigned tenants,
opened in 2006. It gradually drew tenants paying the highest prices ever paid
downtown - several above $70 a square foot. The building's occupants include
German bank WestLB and Moody's.