After 13 years when the original towers was destroyed in the 9/11 attacks, New york's world trade center have reopened for business. Employees at publishing giant Conde Nast are starting to move into the 104 One World Trade Center. The building which about eight years to build and $3.8bn was spent.
It is 60% leased and the government's General
Services Administration has signed up for
275,000 square feet.
"The New York City skyline is whole again,"
Patrick Foye, executive director of the Port
Authority, which owns the restored site, said in
a statement.
The 1,776ft (541m) tall skyscraper is at the
centre of the site, which includes a memorial in
the footprints of the old towers and a museum,
opened this year.
An observation deck at the top of the building
will eventually be open to the public.
Mr Foye added the building was "the most
secure office building in America".
TJ Gottesdiener of the Skidmore, Owings &
Merrill firm that produced the final design said
the high-rise went beyond the city's existing
building code, and was built with steel-
reinforced concrete.
About 170 of Conde Nast's employees will be
moving into the building this week, filling five
floors. About 3,000 more employees will join
them in early 2015.
Space has also been leased to the advertising
firm Kids Creative, the GSA, and 191,000 sq ft
for the China Center, a trade and cultural space.
The new World Trade Center is the centrepiece
of the 16-acre site where the twin towers once
stood, before they came crashing down, killing
more than 2,700 people.
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