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At the AOL Time Warner headquarters going up at Columbus Circle, 1,000 construction workers are putting up the steel framework that will support the top halves of the 55-story twin buildings.
Before the towers are finished in the third quarter of 2003, the number of workers overseen by project manager Bovis Lend Lease will top out at 4,000.
Despite the dampening effects of the Sept. 11 attacks and the recession that they worsened, a half-dozen projects already in the pipeline ensure that the city's $17 billion construction industry will stay busy for the next two years. About 4.4 million square feet of space will become available.
Meeting demand
"We are going to have a significant amount of building," says Maria Sicola, director of research at Cushman & Wakefield Inc. "We will see a healthy amount of...