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The accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche has decided to leave the World Trade Center, making it the largest tenant to move from the complex since it was devastated by a terrorist bombing in February.
The accounting firm has been leasing 371,000 square feet in the top floors of Tower One of the Trade Center complex. After the Feb. 26 bombing, the firm's Trade Center operations were moved to 1633 Broadway, where Deloitte & Touche has other offices. They have not moved back.
Now, accounting firm officials say the operations will never return. They will remain at 1633 Broadway until Deloitte & Touche makes a final decision on its long-term space needs, says J. Michael Cook, the firm's chairman and chief executive.
Mr. Cook notes that his firm has been planning to put all its offices "under one roof" since the 1989 merger of Deloitte Haskins & Sells and Touche Ross & Co. "This is all part of that natural evolution," he says.
Officials at Deloitte & Touche and the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, which owns the World Trade Center, emphasize that the bombing had nothing to do...