You Can Now Live in What Was Once ‘The World’s Costliest Real Estate Plot’

The Daily Beast takes readers on a journey through the history of One Wall Street — from its Gilded Age origins to its current incarnation as home to upscale condos and a much-needed Whole Foods Market. Built on what was, at the time, the “world’s costliest real estate plot,” the Irving Trust Company Building went up during the height of the skyscraper race and stood for decades as a monument to the city’s Art Deco phase. Developer Harry Macklowe led a joint venture to purchase the tower in 2014 and began converting the former bank headquarters into a diverse collection of luxury Financial District condos, which, along with the tower’s retail tenants (including Parisian department store Printemps as well as Whole Foods), are part of the movement to turn Downtown Manhattan from an office district into a thriving residential neighborhood.