New York - More than 13 years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, One World Trade Center (WTC) is opening on the site of the original building. According to the BBC news website, the first company, publishing house Condé Nast, started moving into the new 104-story office building today. The skyscraper, which took eight years to build and cost $3.8 billion (approximately 84.5 billion crowns), is now the tallest building in the USA at 541 meters. It stands on the site of the destroyed twin towers, which were hit by two airplanes flown by terrorists on September 11, 2001. More than 2,700 people died during the attacks in New York and Washington. "The silhouette of New York is complete again," said Patrick Foye, director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the land on which the building stands. According to Foye, it is the "safest office building in America." In addition to the 170 Condé Nast employees moving into five floors of the building this week, an additional more than 3,000 colleagues and subsequently employees from other companies are expected to join them at the beginning of 2015. Reportedly, 60 percent of the space has already been leased. In addition to One WTC, there is also a memorial to the victims of the attack and a museum at the site known as Ground Zero, which opened this past May. A public observation deck will also be accessible at the top of the skyscraper in spring 2015.
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