Westfield World Trade Center by Santiago Calatrava
Area: 500,000 sq. feet
Estimated cost: $612.5 million, Estimated completion: March 2015
The future Mall at the World Trade Center, currently under construction, calls for roughly 500,000 square feet (46,000 m²) of retail space, which will once again make it the largest shopping mall in Manhattan. Although the new mall will only be spread over roughly one half of the original mall's footprint (due to the new space required for the below-grade WTC museum), the mall will be double-level, whereas the original mall was a single-level mall. Three additional levels will also exist above-grade on the lower floors of Towers 2 and 3, and Tower 4 will house four above-grade levels. According to developer Larry Silverstein (whose firm was replaced by Westfield as the developer): "The design we have developed with the Port Authority calls for not only rebuilding the retail space that was lost on 9/11, but going above and beyond what was there before. We want to create a real destination for visitors and shoppers, a center that will share many of the attributes of the city's great retail hubs."
Construction on the 1 World Trade center portion of the mall began in mid-2007. According to a press release dated February 9th, 2012 and issued by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, "The grand opening of the retail complex is expected in 2015." Westfield has re-entered into an agreement with the Port Authority for co-ownership and management of the mall, which will be named Westfield World Trade Center, and has recently begun marketing space in the mall, opening a leasing office in the new 7 World Trade Center.
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