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Beekman Place Tower
Location	Beekman Place and Spruce Street New York City
Status	Under construction
Groundbreaking	2006^[1]
Opening	2009^[1]
Use	Mixed-use^[1]
Roof	876 ft (267 m)^[1]
Floor count	75^[1]
Companies
Architect	Frank Gehry^[1]
Structural Engineer	WSP Cantor Seinuk

The Beekman Place Tower is an architecturally unique, mixed-use tower that is under construction on Manhattan Island in New York City, New York.^[2]^[3] The tower, designed by architect Frank Gehry, is set to rise 75 stories and be 876 feet (267 meters) tall.^[1] Construction began on the tower in 2006 and the building is set to open in 2009.^[1] Image File history File links Gnome_globe_current_event. ... Image File history File links Applications-development. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... WSP Group PLC is a British based multinational company providing management, engineering and consultancy services for the construction industry. ... For other uses, see Manhattan (disambiguation). ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None Area 141,205 km² (27th) - Land 122,409 km² - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize winning architect based in Los Angeles, California. ...

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^ OUROUSSOFF, NICOLAI (2004-09-05). The New New York Skyline - THE skyline is back. New York Times. Retrieved on 2007-11-19.

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