It's been three years since a private company signed a lease at One World Trade Center, so the Durst Organization and Port Authority decided to cut rents by nearly 10 percent to $69 per square foot for the middle floors. The building is set to open in a few months, but it's just 55 percent leasednot good for the most expensive office building in the world. It cost $3.9 billion to build and "has little hope of proving to be a good financial investment in the short term." [WSJ; previously]
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