WTC 7 is up and open for business.

that's the building my clients were in on 911. It was the one that went down later in the afternoon after fire. It was my day off, I was working midnights, three 12 hr shifts. I was home sleeping, when they called me around 3 in the afternoon to come in to work with the disaster recovery team. They had evacuated and moved across the river to Hoboken and we needed to get them back up and running. On the way in I heard the news that building 7 had collapsed. We had their network re-established and their systems back up and running by 3 a.m. the next morning. What really impressed me that day was, that those people in New York (who I had a very good professional relationship with), endured watching buildings 1 and 2 go down, getting out of town and over the river, but stayed on their jobs. John, the account manager relayed to me his account of what he saw happen from the window of his office that day. From the sound of his trembling voice, I could only imagine what he had been through that day. So this is another happy story for me. It would have been fun to still be there (at my company) to help them move back in. Anyway read it yourself if your interested.

By Gary Hill
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The first skyscraper rebuilt after being destroyed in the September 11 attacks opened on Tuesday with fanfare and a pledge from its developer it would be a model for completing the entire World Trade Center complex by 2012.

A 57-story steel and glass building with 1.7 million square feet of office space, 7 World Trade Center was declared open when developer Larry Silverstein cut a blue ribbon after a bright and breezy outdoor ceremony in which schoolchildren and an Irish tenor sang "God Bless America."

"Lots of emotion. It's a very joyous day. This was the last building to go down on 9/11 and the first to come back," said Silverstein.

Airier, taller and slimmer than the 47-floor building it replaced, the new, $700 million 7 WTC was designed with safety and environmental enhancements the builders say are expected to form the basis of future high-rise building codes.

The original building, erected in 1987, collapsed when falling debris from the Twin Towers sparked fires that weakened its structure.

Asked if he expected 7WTC to be fully leased in a year, Silverstein said: "I certainly do."

Space in 7WTC rents for $50 a square foot with subsidies available, making it "significantly less" than rents in midtown Manhattan, Silverstein said.


http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=12310103&src=rss/topNews

The one with all the gold in the basement which 'melted into the earth?'

But I don't know about the gold.

But I still think the fall of that building is a bit of a puzzle. "Falling debris sparked fires that weakened its structure." Hm.

it just made me feel good to read it.

:)

The "Nut Shell" was the name a caller to radio hosts Curtis & Kuby gave to the citywide command center located in the old WTC7, built by former Mayor Giuliani. I guess we'll never know whether the "Nut Shell" would have served its purpose had it been located somewhere other than Ground Zero.