20141776 Club
One World Trade Center opens; 170 Condé Nast employees move in
The 1,776-foot tower takes its first office workers more than 13 years after the Twin Towers fell.
For more than 13 years, the ground where the Twin Towers stood had been a place of mourning, then a construction site. On November 3, 2014, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey opened One World Trade Center to its first occupants: about 170 employees of Condé Nast, whose publishing offices began moving in that day. The 1,776-foot tower, designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, was the tallest building in the United States. By the end of the year, 62 percent of its office space was leased…
