Location: 130 Liberty Street, Google Maps
Height: 565 ft (172 m), floors: 40
Architect: Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
Construction completed in 1974
Demolition started September 2005
Bovis Lend Lease, a construction company that arrived at ground zero on Sept. 12, 2001, and stayed more than 10 months as part of the excavation and debris removal project, was awarded a $75 million contract yesterday to clean and dismantle the contaminated former tower at 130 Liberty Street.
The two-year contract was approved by the board of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which acquired the 41-story building opposite ground zero to raze it as part of the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site. Last month, the corporation awarded a $13.1 million scaffolding contract to a joint venture of the Regional Scaffolding and Hoisting Company and the Safeway Environmental Corporation.
The deconstruction project should take 16 months after completion of a final plan, said Irene Chang, the corporation's general counsel.
The estimated time and cost of demolishing 130 Liberty Street have steadily increased in recent months as the extent of contamination has become clear. Consultants to the corporation have confirmed that the tower has excessive levels of asbestos, dioxin, lead, silica, quartz, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, chromium and manganese.
Last month, the corporation reached a settlement with two insurers of the Deutsche Bank building, the Allianz Global Risks U.S. Insurance Company and the AXA Corporate Solutions Insurance Company, under which the corporation would pay the first $50 million of the deconstruction costs and the insurers would pay 75 percent of the additional costs.
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Pictures of 130 Liberty
Looking North along Washington Street, with the Bankers Trust Building and Ground Zero. 10 August 2002.
The view on Deutsche Bank (130 Liberty Street, aka Bankers Trust Building) and 90 West Building from on 26 January 2002.
The view of 1 World Financial Center, 1 Liberty Plaza, Deutsche Bank (130 Liberty Street, aka Bankers Trust Building), and 90 West Building from the Hudson River on 21 September 2001.