Image of World Trade Center Site

Rendering courtesy of Silverstein Properties.

Unprecedented Safety and Security

The World Trade Center Vehicle Security Center and Tour Bus Parking Facility (VSC) will provide as part of the comprehensive WTC area police and security plan for screening of buses, trucks, and cars entering the WTC site and its facilities.

 

VSC Construction Status

  • More than 4,000 cubic yards of concrete placed.
  • Approximately 650 tons of steel rebar installed.
  • Completed construction of the demising wall to bisect the site.
  • Excavated more than 78,000 tons of the western section
  • Yonkers is prepared to begin rock excavation and foundation work early next year in the western portion of the site.
  • More than 70,000 tons of soil have been removed from the west side of the VSC site and foundations are now being constructed in preparation for installation of structural steel, which is currently being fabricated.
  • Excavation work has begun on the east side of the VSC site, along with construction of a secant pile wall on the far east side of the site along Greenwich Street.

A Roadmap Forward

Read The Port Authority's candid report on the path ahead at the new World Trade Center.

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Image Gallery

Every day brings new changes to the World Trade Center site, whether it’s steel columns for One World Trade Center being raised, or the concrete footings being poured for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

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