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The Marriott World Trade Center Hotel was a 22-story steel-framed building with 825 rooms. It opened in 1981 as the Vista Hotel and was located at 3 World Trade Center in New York City. The Vista Hotel was the first hotel to open in Lower Manhattan since 1836. The building was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and originally owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. It was sold in 1995 to Host Marriott Corporation after then-Governors George Pataki of New York and Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey pressured Port Authority officials to sell its less profitable assets.
The hotel was connected to the North and South tower, and many went through the hotel to get to the Twin Towers. The hotel had a few establishments including Greenhouse Cafe, Tall Ships Bar & Grill, a store called Times Square Gifts, The Russia House Restaurant and a Grayline New York Tours Bus ticket counter and a hair salon called Olga's. The hotel also had 26,000 square feet of meeting space, and was considered a four-diamond hotel by AAA.
The structure was destroyed on September 11, 2001 in the collapse of the south tower of the World Trade Center.




