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[[One World Trade Center]] (previously coined the "Freedom Tower" by Governor Pataki) is the centerpiece of Libeskind's design. The building rises to {{convert|1368|ft|m}}, the height of the original World Trade Center's northNorth towerTower, and its antenna rises to the symbolic height of 1,776 feet (541 m). This height refers to 1776, the year in which the [[United States Declaration of Independence]] was signed. The tower was a collaboration between Studio Daniel Libeskind and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill architect [[David Childs]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wtc.com/about/freedom-tower |title=Freedom Tower: About the Building |access-date=January 21, 2008 |publisher=Silverstein Properties}}</ref> Childs acted as the design architect and project manager for the tower, and Daniel Libeskind collaborated on the concept and schematic design.<ref>{{cite news |title=Libeskind and Silverstein reach an agreement for WTC site |first=Kevin |last=Lerner |magazine=[[Archit. Rec.|Architectural Record]] |date=August 2003}}</ref> The design was finalized in 2004, but was revised extensively after the [[New York City Police Department|NYPD]] raised security concerns, which delayed the start of the construction by two years.<ref name="Esquire Magazine">{{cite news |url=http://www.esquire.com/features/world-trade-center-rebuilding-0912 |title=The Truth About the World Trade Center |publisher=Esquire Magazine |year=2013}}</ref> In 2006, the Port Authority took over from Silverstein Properties. The project's developer [[Tishman Realty & Construction|Tishman Construction Corporation]] was the construction manager at the time.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wtc.com/about/freedom-tower |title=Freedom Tower |year=2008 |publisher=Silverstein Properties}}</ref> Construction began in April 2006. Digging the foundation and installing tower-foundation steel columns, concrete, and rebar took twice as long as it normally would due to the existence of the [[IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line|subway line under West Broadway]] nearby.<ref name="Is the World Trade Center Safe">{{cite news |url=http://www.esquire.com/features/world-trade-center-safe-0913-2 |title=Is the World Trade Center Safe? |publisher=Esquire Magazine |year=2014|access-date=March 31, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926011600/http://www.esquire.com/features/world-trade-center-safe-0913-2|archive-date=September 26, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> The building reached grade level by 2010, progressed at a pace of one floor a week, topped out in August 2012, and was structurally completed in May 2013.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ny1.com/content/special_reports/911_a_decade_later/146319/9-11-a-decade-later--one-world-trade-center-rises-in-lower-manhattan |title=9/11 A Decade Later: One World Trade Center Rises In Lower Manhattan |last=Cuza |first=Bobby |date=September 2, 2011 |work=[[NY1]]|access-date=September 4, 2011}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The building opened on November 3, 2014, and the first 170 employees of anchor tenant Conde Nast began their work there.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/developments/2014/10/23/one-world-trade-to-open-nov-3-but-ceremony-is-tbd/ |title=One World Trade to Open Nov. 3, But Ceremony is TBD |last=Brown |first=Eliot |newspaper=Wall Street Journal}}</ref><ref name="yahoo">{{cite news |url=https://news.yahoo.com/world-trade-center-reopens-business-071956091.html |title=World Trade Center Reopens for Business|access-date=November 3, 2014 |agency=Associated Press}}</ref>