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Windy City in the East: One WTC's Builders Have a Challenge

Published March 21, 2012
By
Ron Gallagher Contributing Editor
Salvatore Vuono

The developers of One World Trade Center, the 1,776-foot tower under construction in Lower Manhattan, are facing a problem of nature: wind.

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