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...(FT) That smell on top of One WTC The observatory at One World Trade Center in New York now has an official fragrance, pumped through the air vents....
...The Durst Organization — the family business that has been prominent in New York property for a century and jointly owns and operates the main tower — last year reduced rents because of slow lease take-up...
...Mr Wang said the WTC deal represented a further transition away from being “a traditional property company”....
...Artemus aims to attract moneyed individuals and corporations — its website targets media companies, hedge funds, law firms and banks....
...It used to be the convention that a corporation had to take ownership or majority tenancy in a building in order to name it after itself....
...The WTC site is also a blend of the emerging trends in city centre development....
...The 104-floor tower is a joint venture between developer The Durst Organization and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey....
...It has been a struggle to find tenants as cost-wary corporations, stung by the global financial crisis and its fallout, have downsized or searched for cheaper office space....
...Many of the boarded-up properties – including units still bearing the names of The Gap, J Crew, Ann Taylor and other clothing chains – belong to the Howard Hughes Corporation, a listed property developer...
...WTC introduced Ironman Access, an annual membership programme....
...The competing claims of lamentation and instruction were embodied in the guidelines provided for the memorial by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation....
...The big corporations and cultural institutes have all fallen into line....
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