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	Bloomberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Bloomberg is the founder of Bloomberg L.P. and the current Mayor of New York City.
		Bloomberg Television is a cable television network that broadcasts business and financial news 24 hours a day.
		Bloomberg Tower is a skyscraper on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bloomberg (139 words)

	NEW YORK SCRAPERS - POST-MODERNISM II
		The marble-clad mid-portion of the tower shaft is slightly recessed, bordered by corners of limestone.
		Although the towers are physically 53 floors tall, the condominium top-floor penthouses are advertised as the 80th floor.
		Tower floors from third to 28th include the office space; the building houses 82,200 m² of offices in all and is served by 29 elevators.
	www.greatgridlock.net /NYC/nyc4a.html (10797 words)

	New York Inside Guide - Bloomberg Tower (Alexander's Tower) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Bloomberg LP will be the anchor tenant, absorbing all but the top 20 floors of condominiums for its new headquarters.
		By signing on to more space Bloomberg changed the course of development further, but effectively allowed for the project to move forward.
		The modernist Bloomberg Tower is a refreshing, positive addition to the skyline.
	www.geocities.com /nyskyscrapers/Bloomberg.html (302 words)

	New York City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Freedom Tower, intended to be exactly 1,776 feet tall (a number symbolic of the year the Declaration of Independence was written), is to be built on the site and is slated for completion by 2010.
		The city is supplied with water by the vast Catskill Mountains watershed, one of the largest protected wilderness areas in the United States.
		The mayor is Michael Bloomberg, a former Democrat elected as a Republican in 2001 and re-elected in 2005 with 59% of the vote.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_York_City (6200 words)

	SkyscraperCity - Bloomberg: Remove Silverstein
		Bloomberg's plan for a West Side stadium this year, sent the mayor a widely circulated letter saying he was "outraged by your recent suggestion that we abandon efforts to commercially rebuild" the trade center site.
		As for Bloomberg's wish to include housing in the mix, Silverstein said his expected insurance payout of $4.65 billion is contingent on his replacing the 10 million square feet of office space lost on 9/11.
		Bloomberg News is reporting that "Silverstein today temporarily withdrew his application for $3.5 billion in low-cost Liberty Bond financing" and that a "vote on the bonds tomorrow by the city's Industrial Development Authority was called off, and talks will continue".
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=272545 (6900 words)

	The Real Deal - Third Avenue’s Retail Revival in Full Bloom
		Bloomberg is creating a buzz where Midtown meets the Upper East Side, but excitement among retailers around Bloomingdale's has nothing to do with mayoral decisions from City Hall.
		As the Bloomberg tower goes up between Lexington and Third Avenue at 58th St., on the former site of Alexander's department store, commercial real estate brokers aren't sure if Midtown is moving east or the Upper East Side is moving south.
		For example, the Bloomberg tower project involved knocking down a square block as well as a few smaller buildings.
	www.therealdeal.net /issues/May_2004/1084397840.php (597 words)

	Bloomberg zeroes in on Downtown rebuilding, arts and living
		Mayor Mike Bloomberg is still happy living in his Upper East Side townhouse but the project that could tempt him to try Downtown living is the $50-million, box-shaped condos architect Santiago Calatrava is designing at the Seaport.
		Bloomberg said “Liberty Bonds are government money, people’s money, and we should look to see what’s the best use of the people’s money.
		Bloomberg did not say what should replace the market, but was clear about what led to the failures of Seaport Marketplace, which General Growth Properties bought from Rouse Corp. last year.
	www.downtownexpress.com /de_136/bloombergzeroesinon.html (1624 words)

	www.ny.gov - GOVERNOR PATAKI, GOVERNOR MCGREEVEY, MAYOR BLOOMBERG LAY CORNERSTONE FOR FREEDOM TOWER
		The cornerstone for the Freedom Tower is made from a 20-ton granite block quarried from the Barton Mines in the Adirondacks.
		Steel for the Freedom Tower is expected to rise to the sky into 2006 with initial occupancy of the building in late 2008.
		a tower that will honor the heroes we lost on that tragic day, and serve as a reminder that not only did thousands of our friends and family die on this sacred ground, but that they lived, worked, loved and dreamed here too.
	www.state.ny.us /governor/press/04/july4_04.htm (1858 words)

	New York - La nuova East Side Tower ha una piazza che é tutta una meraviglia - Europaconcorsi
		With the Bloomberg Tower's plaza, he aspired to make another great New York enclosure, akin to Grand Central Station, the reading room of the New York Public Library, the skating rink at Rockefeller Center or the World Financial Center Winter Garden, which his father designed.
		The oval is roughly the size and shape of an 18th-century opera house; the 58th Street entrance faces a narrower proscenium opening, capped by a stainless-steel arch.
		At the 30th floor, where the tower turns residential and the ceiling heights shrink, the bands come closer together, as if the drummer had picked up the pace, accelerating into the diffuse white glow of the crown.
	www.europaconcorsi.com /db/rec/inbox.php?id=5248 (767 words)

	The New York Observer Real Estate: Bloomberg and the U.N. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		But Reuter said it was never the U.N.'s idea, and once the state Senate blocked funding for it in 2004, the international agency settled on a plan that would put a new structure on the lawn to the north of the Secretariat.
		In February we uncovered Sheldon Solow's interest in dooming the playground tower, and Bloomberg's renewed push cannot be good news for the developer's plans for the old Con Ed site to the south, because yet another tower would make the neighborhood awfully congested.
		The Bloomberg administration plans to argue that the project will not only create construction jobs, but will ultimately free up two city-owned buildings at 1 and 2 U.N. Plaza that eventually can be sold for big bucks.
	therealestate.observer.com /2006/04/bloomberg-and-the-un.html (335 words)

	New York Daily News - News & Views - Trucks roll to begin Freedom Tower construction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Pataki, Bloomberg and other politicians had called the developer greedy in recent weeks during a heated battle for control of development and billions of dollars in rebuilding money at the 16-acre site.
		Childs produced a second design of the tower, then a third last year after police expressed concerns the structure was not sturdy enough to withstand a terrorist's truck bomb.
		Politicians broke ground on the tower for the first time on July 4, 2004, with a 20-ton inscribed granite cornerstone that has remained encased in blue plywood since construction stalled.
	www.nydailynews.com /news/story/412456p-348812c.html (1398 words)

	World's Tallest Buildings
		World Trade Center twin towers of New York City ranked fifth and sixth (at 1,368 ft and 1,362 ft) on this list until their destruction on Sept. 11, 2001.
		A building differs from a tower in that the former is considered to be a structure that is designed for residential, business, or manufacturing purposes.
		Petronas Towers - Petronas Towers, twin skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, that are the world's tallest twin...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0001338.html (650 words)

	Bloomberg Tower
		The view of Central Park South and Bloomberg Tower from the 35th floor lobby of Mandarin Oriental New York Hotel.
		The Citigroup Center and the construction of the Bloomberg Tower.
		Construction of the Bloomberg Tower and the Roosevelt Island Tram.
	www.wirednewyork.com /skyscrapers/731lexington/default.htm (194 words)

	Bloomberg Tower under construction, 731 Lexington Avenue, 151 East 58th Street, Manhattan, New York, NYC, USA
		Bloomberg Tower under construction, 731 Lexington Avenue, 151 East 58th Street, Manhattan, New York, NYC, USA
		This 55-storey tower, designed by Cesar Pelli and Associates was looking close to completion in this November 2004 view.
		The rest of the building is due to be taken up by offices and three retail floors with 14,400 m² of retail space.
	www.urban75.org /photos/newyork/ny560.html (171 words)

	New York Daily News - Home - Butt out, Larry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In an unusually candid sitdown, Bloomberg also expressed concern over the priorities of the Port Authority, which owns the site, and the growing "power" of the families that lost loved ones there on 9/11.
		Bloomberg said he thought a better idea for Ground Zero would be schools and residential buildings, which are in hot demand in lower Manhattan, rather than the commercial towers planned by Silverstein and the PA.
		December 2004: Federal jury rules the towers were destroyed as a result of two attacks, not one, boosting Silverstein’s likely insurance payout to $4.6 billion.
	www.nydailynews.com /front/story/358422p-305310c.html (832 words)

	Wired New York Forum - Bloomberg Tower
		Bloomberg is supposed to build a 54 story glass skyscraper on the old Alexander's Department Store sight between 58-59 streets and 3rd Avenue to Lex.
		It will rise nearly 870 feet in the air and is expected to be taller than Trump World Tower, which is the tallest residential building in the world.
		Mayor Mike's company has already leased 700,000 square feet in the base of the Bloomberg Building for its new offices and there is a retail base of about 275,000 square feet in which Handamp;M has already leased 40,000 square feet.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/printthread.php?t=3384&pp=50 (879 words)

	The Real Deal - On East 59th Street, from tired to trendy
		As an extension of a renaissance being seen all along the 59th Street corridor from the Hudson to the East River, the artery saw the development of Bridge Tower Place at 401 East 60th Street in 2000, with its 218 condominiums.
		Brokers call the opulent One Beacon Court at 151 East 58th Street, at the top of the nearly completed Bloomberg Tower, the crown jewel of the area's newly raised profile.
		In addition to housing the headquarters of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's eponymous financial news and information services company, the tower adds sparkle to the skyline and sidewalk, showcasing retail tenants such as Home Depot and Hand.
	www.therealdeal.net /issues/May_2005/1114626253.php (963 words)

	New York Observer
		It’s the Bloomberg building all right, a home to the ethic of his age and his administration, the astonishing cops of hysterical cleanliness in a once-grungy town—just as the Mayor is triumphantly the astonishing cop of fiscal success (our bonds are A+, the highest ever!)—in a once bankrupt town.
		Patrick Beehan, a tall, well-constructed young man not long out of college, was dressed typically for Bloomberg in a dress shirt and tie with no jacket, his ID tag and another, “biometric” tag with an image of his thumbprint dangling from his neck.
		Bloomberg and several other partners at Salomon Brothers were made redundant in a merger, he had to figure out what to do with the rest of his life.
	www.observer.com /printpage.asp?iid=12866&ic=Manhattan+Transfers (3374 words)

	German American Capital grants loan for Bloomberg tower - Brief Article Real Estate Weekly - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The arrangement means that the tower (reported to cost approximately $650 million) will no longer be held as collateral.
		The Bloomberg Tower, located a 731 Lexington Ave., will be a 1.4 million s/f office building, containing 900,000 s/f of office space, 100 residential condos and two retail floors.
		The Bloomberg Tower is expected to be completed by May of 2004.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3601/is_29_50/ai_114243373 (243 words)

	Repeat- Writings on Architecture: The World's Tallest Buildings: America's Latest Outsourcing?
		Perhaps the most eccentric of the entries is Hong Kong's The Arch, twin towers with over 1,000 apartments joined at the top by a "Clubhouse" that rises the last twenty or so floors.
		London's sensational new priapic tower, 30 St. Mary Axe, appears to take a starring role as erotic symbol in the mise-en-scene of Sharon Stone's upcoming sex and death potboiler Basic Instinct 2.
		It's the centerpiece of the very first shot of the trailer, and Stone's character Catherine Trammel actually appears to live inside its skin (her novels must really sell), making it the stage set for numerous reckless expressions of her fevered libido.
	lynnbecker.com /repeat/ctbuh/ctbuh.htm (596 words)

	Gotham Gazette's Best Land Use Links for New York City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that the nuts and bolts of the World Trade Center's rebuilding are out of the hands of the next governor and repeated his goal of spending no more than $500 million on a memorial to the victims of the attacks.
		The Freedom Tower is widely considered ground zero's least desirable site because of its isolation from the center of Lower Manhattan, its distance from a public transportation hub to the east, and the presumption that the 1,776-foot building would be the most likely target for another terrorist attack.
		Mayor Bloomberg, who has little actual power over decisions at ground zero, is using his bully pulpit to pressure Larry Silverstein to accede to the authority's demands that he relinquish control of a major part of the 16-acre parcel in return for a reduction in rent, so that the rebuilding effort can proceed more swiftly.
	www.gothamgazette.com /resource/landuse/inthenews/12 (11655 words)

	Bloomberg Tower, New York City
		The complex consists of a condominium tower on a 9-story base of offices, with an 8-story office/retail wing to the west.
		The security guards are supposedly trained to tackle anyone who attempts climbing the horizontal metal rims that rise from the street level up the tower and the annex.
		Bloomberg Tower was chosen as one of the best new skyscrapers of the year 2005 and received 13 voting points.
	www.emporis.com /en/wm/bu/?id=130987 (260 words)

	Bloomberg Tower - NYWiki
		Bloomberg Tower, named after Bloomberg L.P., is a skyscraper on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan.
		The tower, located at 731 Lexington Avenue (between East 58th and 59th streets) is 54 stories tall, reaching 806 feet / 246 meters.
		Trump's tower plan a no-go.(Donald Tramp): An article f...
	www.nywiki.com /index.php/Bloomberg_Tower (106 words)

	Bloomberg Tower Revitalizes NYC Neighborhood \| Planetizen
		The recent completion of the Bloomberg Tower has inspired a number of new development projects, which has created a commercial renaissance in a formerly lackluster area of mid-town.
		"The Bloomberg Tower at 731 Lexington Avenue, with an upscale residential portion called One Beacon Court, is transforming the commerce of a neighborhood.
		That was followed by years of construction, when shoppers wandered along 59th Street from the Plaza Hotel, at the southeast corner of Central Park, to Bloomingdale's, three blocks to the east, but not much farther.
	www.planetizen.com /node/19925 (356 words)

	Bloomberg Tower - SkyscraperPage.com
		The structural frame is also mixed: office and retail floors have a steel frame, while the residential portion is concrete.
		A key feature of this project is the central area called Beacon Court, which is a public space with an elliptical glass overhang.
		Previous designs were 868 feet and a twin towered concept of 420 feet.
	www.skyscraperpage.com /cities/?buildingID=3401 (87 words)

	Deroy Murdock on World Trade Center on National Review Online
		The perception that architect Daniel Libeskind’s macabre substitute, the Freedom Tower, inevitably would replace the demolished skyscrapers has undermined the notion of resurrecting the Twin Towers.
		Fellow billionaire Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York, sarcastically rebuked the property magnate.
		Its “tube-within-a-tube” structure, internal columns, and intersecting vertical and horizontal steel beams, versus the original Towers’ truss construction, make the new Towers far tougher than those that were destroyed.
	www.nationalreview.com /murdock/murdock200505091455.asp (1166 words)

	The Boston Real Estate Blog : Blog Archive : Filene’s building site - look to Manhattan for hint of the future
		The latest incarnation of the renowned restaurant Le Cirque is in a ground-floor location on the tower’s motor court, an atrium between two connected towers where pedestrians and automobiles can move between 58th and 59th Streets.
		The developer also acquired buildings around the Bloomberg Tower to export its retail flavor to an even larger swath of the neighborhood.
		Thus, Vornado built 715 Lexington Avenue, which is architecturally similar to the Bloomberg Tower and has 23,000 square feet of retail space housing the clothing store New York & Company and Zales Jewelers.
	bostonreb.com /blog/?p=1187 (1028 words)

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		Marina & Apartment Tower plan for Melbourne Suburb Werribee South
		Towers chosen to put Regent site to rest
		Project 'Europa' to be completed in early 2004
	www.skyscrapercity.info /100.php?id=&bid=3186 (198 words)

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