One tech firm that had aimed for midtown south and a nonprofit whose lease nearby was nearly up will take a total of 12,400 square feet on the 46th floor.
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It's payoff time for developer Larry Silverstein on 7 World Trade Center, nearly five years after he completed the first tower to be rebuilt in Lower Manhattan after the 2001 terrorist attacks.  Read more...

Some 6 million square feet of new space could be about to hit the New York City office market. Larry Silverstein, Silverstein Properties CEO & president, weighs in.
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Redevelopment of the World Trade Center site is now evident in the Lower Manhattan skyline, mostly with the under-construction One World Trade Center, now more than 90 floors up. But just across the 16-acre site, another tower—4 World Trade Center—is rising just as fast, if not as tall.

The building is slated for completion at the end of 2013, and unlike One World Trade, it’s being constructed by a private developer, Larry Silverstein. View a slide show of the progress.
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Larry Silverstein, president and chief executive officer of Silverstein Properties Inc., talks about the company's succession plan and decision to name Martin Burger as co-chief executive officer. Silverstein, speaking with Trish Regan on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart," also discusses the development of the World Trade Center site in Manhattan, New York City's real-estate market and his overseas investments.   Read more...

At 3 World Trade Center, the 80-story tower designed by Richard Rogers and developed by Silverstein Properties, the floor plates of 29,000 to 68,000 square feet have no columns.   Read more...

Two senior managers of Watsonville, Calif.-based Granite Construction Inc. have been chosen as the 2011 recipients of the Gary E. Bird Horizon Award for innovation and excellence in risk management at the 31st annual IRMI Construction Risk Conference in San Diego.
Other finalists for the award included Shari Natovitz, vp of risk management at Silverstein Properties Inc.  Read more...

The concrete base of One World Trade Center will be enshrouded by stainless steel panels and glass to reflect light during the day, giving the iconic building a distinct street-level appearance, the Port Authority said Tuesday.  Read more...

The Port Authority’s new executive director, Patrick Foye, is off to a running start at the World Trade Center. Insiders credit him with encouraging his boss, Gov. Cuomo, to sign off promptly on the PA’s agreement with Fidelity Investments on financing construction of 4 WTC last week.
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What's it like constructing One World Trade Center from the ground up? Tom Llamas and producer Keith Feldman take a ride to the 84th floor to show us what its like for these iron workers 1,000 feet up.  Read more...

With incredible views from the 48th floor of 7 World Trade Center, you might expect artist Marcus Robinson to paint the skyline. But instead, he is inspired by what what's happening at ground level.  Read more...

When Larry Silverstein was asked to lend some of his time to be the featured guest at a B'nai B'rith real estate luncheon event held yesterday he was happy to oblige, and even agreed to pay for lunch, he told an audience of about 70 at the event in 7 World Trade Center. The developer said the organization has done extraordinary work in its more than 100 years of existence.   Read more...

Long before Condé Nast took 1 million square feet at 1 World Trade Center, the New York Academy of Sciences took 40,000 square feet at 7 World Trade Center -- a small lease signed in 2005 which, in years to come, might go down in the annals as the truly pioneering deal.   Read more...

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.  Read more...

Tonight the rebuilding of Ground Zero with Larry Silverstein, president and CEO of Silverstein Properties; Chris Ward, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; architect, David Childs lead designer of One World Trade Center; architect Daniel Libeskind, designer of the site`s original master plan; and Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for the "New Yorker" magazine. We conclude this evening with Michael Arad, the designer of the 9/11 Memorial.  Read more...

The World Trade Center site may be the most famous construction project since the Tower of Babel, if not the most contentious. But most of the work has taken place behind some 13,000 feet of blue construction fencing, and so to the extent that we have watched the progress, we’ve mostly relied on the images sent out from behind the fence—many of them the work of Joe Woolhead  Read more...

Good morning and welcome to 7 World Trade Center. It’s an honor to be here today with two stalwart rebuilding leaders – Mayor Bloomberg and Speaker Silver; Chris Ward, our partner at the Port Authority; Joe Daniels, who has done a great job as the CEO of the Memorial Foundation; and Master Planner Daniel Libeskind. I also want to express my appreciation to Governor Cuomo, who couldn’t be here today, but is a strong supporter of the rebuilding effort.   Read more...

Next weekend the world will turn its gaze to the World Trade Center site as the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that rocked New York City – and the world – approaches. Rebuilding efforts at the site have been surrounded by controversy as architects and plans were altered, whilst construction progress is closely monitored. In preparation for next weekend’s landmark date, WTC site masterplanner Daniel Libeskind and Dara McQuillan, spokesman from Silverstein Properties, spoke to the BBC about the finalised designs.  Read more...

Devastated by the 9/11 attacks, downtown New York is once again staking its claim as one of the world's premier business districts based on competitive rents and the old-fashioned value of face-to-face commerce.  Read more...

The Downtown Alliance is providing an ongoing list of events and programs taking place this year to mark the 10-year anniversary of September 11, 2001.
For quick and easy access to this listing and other events, download the Downtown Alliance iPhone Events App.
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A decade and a day after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the public will be able to return for the first time to the place where the Twin Towers stood.   Read more...

Most New Yorkers know Larry Silverstein as the leaseholder on the World Trade Center. What they may not know is that he signed that lease in July 2001, just eight weeks before it was destroyed.  Read more...

Ten years after the 9/11 attacks destroyed the World Trade Center, an 80-story glass and steel tower is rising like a phoenix from the ashes of ground zero.  Read more...

When Monica Iken Murphy looks out over the Sept. 11 Memorial, she feels like her husband, Michael Murphy, has found peace.  Read more...

Even as concrete mixers hummed beyond the chain-link fence and half a dozen cranes buzzed hundreds of feet above, there was a genuine calm in the reborn plaza at the World Trade Center where nearly 3,000 people died a decade ago.   Read more...

You can see it on the skyline, but now take a look inside the massive construction project at Ground Zero.  Read more...

Almost ten years after 9/11 ripped the lower Manhattan community apart, Downtown is back and better than ever.  Read more...

Out of the ashes of 9/11 has risen a vibrant neighborhood packed with new restaurants and hotels, places to live and spots to shop, along with many ways to pay respects to an area some worried would never come back.  Read more...

Westfield Group announced Friday it plans to manage a new shopping precinct at the site of New York's World Trade Center, as the world's largest listed shopping mall operator strike a deal to return almost 10 years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.  Read more...

With only two months away until the 9/11 Memorial Park opens to the general public, the entire 16-acre World Trade Center redevelopment is beginning to take shape. Following CB Richard Ellis' second quarter press briefing on the Manhattan office market, Silverstein Properties Inc. conducted a tour of 4 World Trade Center. GlobeSt.com's Jacqueline Hlavenka explored the progress being made at the site.   Read more...

The September 11th memorial, which opens on the 10th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center, is a feat of engineering due to the powerful machinery that powers the site's signature waterfalls. NY1's Bobby Cuza took an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the site and filed the following report.   Read more...

Philosopher George Santayana is known for the line, "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." This common refrain, and the burden of a past that no American wants repeated, weighs heavily on the shoulders of William "Bill" Dacunto.
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Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), the U.S. performing right organization that represents over 475,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers, is partnering with Silverstein Properties, Inc. to host a series of free summer performances in the public park in front of 7 World Trade Center (250 Greenwich St.) in Downtown Manhattan.  Read more...

The power struggle is over, it seems, and now there is tangible progress at the World Trade Center site -- particularly on One World Trade Center, now 68 stories tall.  Read more...

After years of setbacks, construction at the World Trade Center site is advancing--but the best is yet to come, explained Larry Silverstein, president and CEO of Silverstein Properties, at the Real Estate Lenders Association's (RELA) final breakfast of their membership year at Seven World Trade Center this morning.  Read more...

The general public can start making reservations next month to visit the Sept. 11 memorial after the terror attacks' 10th anniversary, and victims' relatives will have special provisions to schedule visits to the monument taking shape in the World Trade Center's footprints, organizers said Friday.  Read more...

They look a lot like they're from a video game, but images created with a special kind of software are being used to design new World Trade Center buildings.  Read more...

Media company Conde Nast Publications is near to reaching a deal to relocate to One World Trade Center from midtown Manhattan, a move that could draw other high-profile tenants to the Ground Zero project.  Read more...

A view of the south memorial pool at ground zero with 4 World Trade Center rising above newly planted white oak trees and 1 World Trade Center beyond the pool. The temporary wooden barrier is where the names of the victims of 9/11 will be placed. As part of the design, a system is being installed that will keep the temperature of the bronze name panels constant regardless of the weather, according to a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has scrapped a plan to cover the concrete base of a World Trade Center tower with 2,000 clear prismatic glass panels due to technical problems.
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