One World Trade Center, located at 285 Fulton Street in Lower Manhattan, is not only the tallest building in NYC but also the tallest in the Western Hemisphere, and if you’re not scared of heights you’ll be delighted to know that it’s now leasing its highest floors for the first time ever!
One World Trade Center, or better known as Freedom Tower, was completed in 2013 and, standing a whopping 1,776 feet tall, is an important part of NYC’s skyline (which is the second tallest in the world). Now, 12 years after its completion, the building’s 89th and 90th floors have entered NYC’s commercial real estate market.
The 89th and 90th floors of the building were previously occupied by a Chinese investment group and broadcast equipment, but now that both floors have hit the market they’re breaking records as NYC’s highest office space.
The office space stands about 1,100 feet off the ground, which is almost as high as you can go anywhere around the city, so you can just imagine what the views are like. After a 75-second ride up two separate elevators, the 46,000-square-foot space opens up to 360-degree panoramic views of NYC.
But with views like this comes a hefty price tag of as much as $160 per square foot, which is quite steeper than what Downtown Manhattan is used to and more closely resembles Midtown prices. The asking price hints at the fact that the Durst Organization, which co-developed the building with The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, is looking to attract elite finance, venture capital, and tech firms.
And though the tenant’s buildings used to be mostly made up of insurance firms, brokerages, and banking giants, current tenants in the 3.1 million square foot building now include Conde Nast, tech marketers Wunderkind Corp., and investment firm Energy Capital Partners. Currently, the building has a 95% occupancy rate.
And, speaking of crazy NYC buildings, did you know there’s a suspended skyscraper proposed for the city that would hang inverted from an asteroid? No, we’re not kidding. Read more about it.