Firms Leaving Lower Manhattan

Manhattan firms relocate offices to decentralize operations. How will the trend impact efforts to rebuild Lower Manhattan?

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January 30, 2002, 2:00 PM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"[D]ispersing workers became the order of the day after the attack on the World Trade Center in September. Never again do these global companies want to see themselves knocked out of business for days and weeks, or even hours, by a single cataclysmic event... This trend presents one of the greatest challenges in rebuilding Lower Manhattan, where more than 20 million square feet of office space was damaged or destroyed in the Sept. 11 attack."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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Wednesday, January 30, 2002 in The New York Times

Community / Economic Development New York

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