Brookfield Place
250 Vesey Street | also 4 World Financial Center, 230 Vesey Street | Battery Park City | built 1986
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- 1981
Olympia and York is chosen to build the World Financial Center, with Cesar Pelli as lead architect
The World Financial Center, which includes today's 250 Vesey Street as its Four World Financial Center tower, began construction in 1981 on landfill in Battery Park City. Toronto's Olympia and York was named developer and brought in Cesar Pelli as lead architect. The land itself was made from rock and soil dug out for the World Trade Center and other projects.
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- 1986
Merrill fills the new Four World Financial Center tower
Cesar Pelli & Associates, with structural engineer Thornton Tomasetti, design the 34-story, 500-foot tower, built between 1984 and 1986 as part of the World Financial Center. Merrill, the investment firm, originally occupies the entire building. It is renamed 250 Vesey Street in 2014, when the complex becomes Brookfield Place.
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- 2001
The September 11 attacks leave major damage to the roof of Four World Financial Center
After the September 11 attacks, the building suffered major roof damage. Its overall damage was lighter than that of the other three towers in the complex.
“After the September 11 attacks, the building sustained major damage to its roof; however, the general damage to the building was less than that to the other three towers.”
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- 2001
Merrill is first back into the complex after the September 11 attacks
The tower's roof is badly damaged in the September 11 attacks, but the building suffers less overall than the other three towers in the complex. On October 23, 2001, about two dozen senior Merrill executives return to a limited number of floors, making it the first of the four towers to be reoccupied.
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- 2014
The tower becomes 250 Vesey Street as the complex is renamed Brookfield Place
In 2014 the World Financial Center took the name Brookfield Place, matching other Brookfield properties in Toronto, Calgary and Perth. Four World Financial Center was renamed 250 Vesey Street at that point. The change followed a $250 million post-attack renovation and expansion and Brookfield's $200 million purchase of One North End Avenue in 2013.
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- 2025
Trading firm Jane Street, with about 3,000 staff, is headquartered at 250 Vesey Street
The trading firm Jane Street Capital has its headquarters in this tower in lower Manhattan. As of 2025 it employed roughly 3,000 people.
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