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Final steel beam to be lifted at 4 WTC tower

The tower is scheduled to open late next year

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In a April 17, 2012 photo, Four World Trade Center, center, rises above the World Trade Center construction site, in New York. The tower, owned by developer Larry Silverstein, is scheduled to top out, Monday, June 25, 2012 and will be the first tower completed on the World Trade Center site.

Associated Press

NEW YORK — The steel construction of 4 World Trade Center is drawing to a close.

Developer Larry Silverstein, public officials and construction workers are scheduled to gather at the site Monday to see some workers sign the building’s final steel beam before it’s lifted 977 feet by a crane and placed on top of the building.

The tower is scheduled to open late next year. It is expected to be the first tower completed on the 16-acre World Trade Center site since the 9/11 attacks.

The building will primarily house commercial offices. A third of the office space will be set aside for the headquarters of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the trade center site.