The World Trade Center site is the 16 acre (65,000 m²) real estate on which the WTC complex stood in New York until the September 11, 2001 attacks. The site is in Lower Manhattan; most of it (where its buildings except 7 World Trade Center stood) is bounded to the north by Vesey Street, to the west by the West Side Highway, to the south by Liberty Street, and to the east by Church Street. In the northern portion of the site across Vesey Street, the former location of 7 World Trade Center is bounded to the west by Washington Street, to the north by Barclay Street, and to the east by West Broadway. Because the lease for the World Trade Center was purchased in July 2001 by Larry Silverstein and Silverstein Properties Inc. from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) for $3.2 billion, Silverstein controls the rebuilding on the site.
