3) World Trade Center
The young decade’s sexiest lease took more finessing than Anna Wintour’s bob, but the deal is finally done. It’s difficult to overstate the hype that the Condé Nast downtown deal has generated around downtown and the World Trade Center towers in particular (where Larry Silverstein at 4 W.T.C. is now reportedly eyeing three-figure rents).
Still, with UBS also reportedly looking to move back from the ’burbs to one of the downtown towers, the fun has only just begun.