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    7 World Trade Center refers to two buildings located in Lower Manhattan. The original 47-story building was completed in 1987 but was destroyed during the September 11 attacks in 2001 when nearby towers collapsed onto it and fires burned uncontrolled. A new 52-story 7 World Trade Center was constructed from 2002-2006 on a smaller footprint with an emphasis on safety and green features, making it the first commercial building in New York City to receive LEED certification.

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    7 World Trade Center refers to two buildings located in Lower Manhattan. The original 47-story building was completed in 1987 but was destroyed during the September 11 attacks in 2001 when nearby towers collapsed onto it and fires burned uncontrolled. A new 52-story 7 World Trade Center was constructed from 2002-2006 on a smaller footprint with an emphasis on safety and green features, making it the first commercial building in New York City to receive LEED certification.

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    7 World Trade Center refers to two buildings located in Lower Manhattan. The original 47-story building was completed in 1987 but was destroyed during the September 11 attacks in 2001 when nearby towers collapsed onto it and fires burned uncontrolled. A new 52-story 7 World Trade Center was constructed from 2002-2006 on a smaller footprint with an emphasis on safety and green features, making it the first commercial building in New York City to receive LEED certification.

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    7 World Trade Center

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    7 World Trade Center (7 WTC or WTC-7) refers to two buildings that

    have existed at the same location within the World Trade Center site in
    Lower Manhattan, New York City. The original structure, part of the
    original World Trade Center, was completed in 1987 and was destroyed
    in the September 11 attacks in 2001. The current structure opened in
    May 2006. Both buildings were developed by Larry Silverstein, who
    holds a ground lease for the site from the Port Authority of New York
    and New Jersey.

    The original 7 World Trade Center was 47 stories tall, clad in red granite
    masonry, and occupied a trapezoidal footprint. An elevated walkway
    spanning Vesey Street connected the building to the World Trade
    Center plaza. The building was situated above a Consolidated Edison
    power substation, which imposed unique structural design constraints.
    When the building opened in 1987, Silverstein had difficulties attracting
    tenants. Salomon Brothers signed a long-term lease in 1988 and
    became the anchor tenant of 7 WTC.

    On September 11, 2001, the structure was substantially damaged by


    debris when the nearby North Tower of the World Trade Center
    collapsed. The debris ignited fires on multiple lower floors of the
    building, which continued to burn uncontrolled throughout the
    afternoon. The building's internal fire suppression system lacked water
    pressure to fight the fires. The collapse began when a critical internal
    column buckled and triggered cascading failure of nearby columns
    throughout, which was first visible from the exterior with the crumbling
    of a rooftop penthouse structure at 5:20:33 pm. This initiated
    progressive collapse of the entire building at 5:21:10 pm, according to
    FEMA,[5]: 23  while the 2008 NIST study placed the final collapse time at
    5:20:52 pm.[6]: 19, 21, 50–51  The collapse made the old 7 World Trade
    Center the first steel skyscraper known to have collapsed primarily due
    to uncontrolled fires.[7][8]

    Construction of the new 7 World Trade Center began in 2002 and was
    completed in 2006. The building is 52 stories tall (plus one underground
    floor), making it the 28th-tallest in New York.[2][3][4] It is built on a
    smaller footprint than the original, and is bounded by Greenwich,
    Vesey, Washington, and Barclay Streets on the east, south, west, and
    north, respectively. A small park across Greenwich Street occupies
    space that was part of the original building's footprint. The current
    building's design emphasizes safety, with a reinforced concrete core,
    wider stairways, and thicker fireproofing on steel columns. It also
    incorporates numerous green design features. The building was the
    first commercial office building in New York City to receive the U.S.
    Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental
    Design (LEED) certification, where it won a gold rating. It was also one
    of the first projects accepted to be part of the Council's pilot program
    for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design – Core and Shell
    Development (LEED-CS).[9]

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