Posted on 03/27/2009 7:04:20 PM PDT by re_tail20
It took three years of stop-and-start negotiations, but a Chinese real estate company is finally signing a lease for space in a 102-story skyscraper under construction at ground zero, becoming the first commercial tenant for the rebuilt World Trade Center.
The Beijing Vantone Industrial Company has agreed to a 23-year lease for floors 64 through 69 in what will be known as 1 World Trade Center, at the southeast corner of West and Vesey Streets. The $3.1 billion office building, once called the Freedom Tower, is scheduled to be completed in 2013.
Vantone plans to build a cultural and business center for Chinese companies doing business in the United States and American companies working in China.
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Why did they change the name from Freedom Tower to World Trade Center? Chinese don’t believe in freedom or what?
I’m more surprised that it’s not another story about them whining about their investments in the US.
I hate the capitulation tower.
Rebuild the twin towers.
Why not? They’ll be owning the place soon enough.
One World One Dream
One World Trade Center
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