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...Citicorp's Manhattan tower actually seems to welcome people...
...Business, Manhattan in recent years has not been an isle of joy. Many corporations have fled New York City; few have had the faith or the funds to build there. Thus the opening of the new $150 million Citicorp Center in midtown Manhattan was an event in itself. More important to New Yorkers and tourists is that the skyscraper gives a stunningly imaginative new accent to the skyline -and, at ground level, is one of the world's few megabuildings that actually appear hospitable to human beings...
...Citicorp, an international financial force with assets of $73 billion and offices in 93 countries, is the parent of Citibank-formerly First National City Bank -New York City's biggest bank, second largest in the nation and the world (after Bank of America). It is not, obviously, your friendly, flexible Bert Lance lending and saving shop. It is a hard-nosed company that will as swiftly foreclose a multimillion-dollar high-rise as a mom-and-pop delicatessen if the mortgage payments lag. Considering the cost of Manhattan real estate and the sensitivities of its stockholders, Citicorp might well...
...Almost from its beginnings, Citicorp Center was envisioned as a place to shop and savor and feast at all hours, an In spot in the inner city. To Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston, it will be "a living, positive part of the neighborhood, 24 hours a day, for decades to come. We would like to think of the Citicorp Center as the cornerstone of a new New York...
...Center is divided into three parts. There is the skyscraper, with 1.3 million sq. ft. of office space. The Market, three floors of a glass-roofed, tree-dotted building within a building, houses shops and restaurants. And, paying its dues to God as well as Mammon, Citicorp Center includes one of the most beautiful churches to be erected in Manhattan in this century, a jagged 85-ft.-high polygonal structure of granite and glass that stands free of the office tower and shares a sunken plaza with The Market...