Final Designs Push Start for Three WTC Towers

NEW YORK CITY-One year after revealing conceptual plans for three new towers at the World Trade Center site, and nearly six years after the terrorist attacks that destroyed the Lower Manhattan hub, the designs for three towers at the site are finalized. The buildings, known as Towers 2, 3 and 4, will rise among the Freedom Tower and 7 World Trade Center.

“In the past year a tremendous team assembled working at break-neck speed,” said Janno Lieber, director of World Trade Center development for Silverstein Properties, at a press conference held yesterday at 7 World Trade Center. “They made every deadline on the design schedule and we are now turning to the construction phase of the project.”

Developer Larry Silverstein said construction on 175 Greenwich St. and 150 Greenwich St., known as Towers 3 and 4 respectively, will begin in January. Work on 200 Greenwich St., known as Tower 2, will follow in July. “If you look out the window to the south, you will see the Port Authority is busy excavating the land where the buildings will stand,” he said. “Shovels will be in the ground in less than four months.”