American Express, the credit card and bank giant, has embarked on plans to build a 55-floor, two million square-foot global headquarters in lower Manhattan amid a set of buildings that are part of the World Trade Center campus.
The company plans to complete the new skyscraper that will house some 10,000 employees by 2031, with construction beginning this spring, according to a press release it issued last week.
The new building, dubbed “2 World Trade Center,” will be located at 200 Greenwich Street, less than a mile from the company’s current headquarters at 200 Vesey Street. It will be built on land owned by the New York Port Authority per a long-term ground lease…