In July 2001, Larry Silverstein, a tycoon of real estate in New York, signed a $ 3.2 billion contract, along with other investors, to manage one of the largest US office complexes: the Twin Towers in World Trade Center.
Six weeks later, on 11 September, the terrorist attack that would destroy the buildings, killing nearly 3,000 people, began the longer process of reconstruction of Silverstein Properties. The contract signed by investors in July gave the rights to that property in Lower Manhattan for the following 99 years.
"There were 15 years of dedication to turn this space into a memory of this terrible episode," said the investor during the opening of an art gallery in the new complex of the World Trade Center on Thursday (8). He and the other financial participants complex invested $ 10 million to transform part of the space at a memorial honoring the victims of the attack.
Two weeks after the tragedy, Silverstein and his colleagues met to discuss the new design of the destroyed area. The first of the new complex building went up in 2006 and, soon, famous figures of the city began to discuss what would be best put in that space.
The mayor of this time, Rudolph Guiliani, asked the company to transform all the remaining area into a memorial of 590 m². The next mayor, billionaire Michael Bloomberg demanded that the site was transformed into a residential neighborhood with apartments and a public school.
After some debate around the subject, Silverstein just delivering the project in the hands of the Durst family, which opened in 2014 a skyscraper on the site. With this construction, and some others scattered around town, and Douglas Durst Joddy revenues of US $ 4.4 billion.
By 2018, the investor must deliver another tower of the World Trade Center. For now, who walk around the site you can visit the units of Eataly, Kate Spade, Sephora and Under Armour in the other buildings of the complex.
Nenhum comentário:
Postar um comentário