Condé Nast, the publishing giant, has signed a tentative deal to move its stable of chic magazines to ground zero, where it will anchor the skyscraper now under construction. The 1,776-foot-tall
skyscraper will be the tallest building in New York when it is completed in 2013. If all goes well, employees of Condé Nast - publisher of
Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Vogue and 15 other
magazines -- would move in 2014 from their current home in Times Square.
The building's owner, The Port Authority of NY/NJ, is hoping that Condé Nast will bring the same kind of
cachet to a rebuilt trade center that the publisher brought to a dowdy Times Square in the late 1990s. It would also signal a shift of creative companies from midtown to downtown. Sources say
Condé Nast would take up to 1 million square feet in the 2.6 million-square-foot skyscraper.
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