3 WTC (Marriott Hotel)

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This Is a Model of the Marriott World Trade Center. It was a 22-story steel-framed hotel building with 825 rooms. It opened in 1981 as the Vista International and was the first hotel to open in Lower Manhattan since 1836. The building was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The Vista International Hotel was connected to the North and South tower, and many went through the hotel to get to the Twin Towers. The hotel had a few establishments including The American Harvest Restaurant, The Greenhouse Cafe, Tall Ships Bar & Grill, a store called Times Square Gifts, The Russia House Restaurant and a Grayline New York Tours Bus ticket counter, a gym that was the largest of any hotel in New York at the time, and a hair salon named Olga's. The hotel also had 26,000 square feet (2,400 m2) of meeting space on the entire 3rd floor along with The New Amsterdam Ballroom on the main floor, and was considered a four-diamond hotel by AAA. On February 26, 1993, the hotel was seriously damaged as a result of the World Trade Center bombing, an explosion destroyed or seriously damaged the Hotel but After extensive repairs, the hotel reopened in November 1994. The structure was destroyed on September 11, 2001 in the collapse of the North and South Towers. This Model Includes a Highly Detailed and Complete 3 WTC, The Concourse, Vegetation, Parking, Streets, Entrances, Signs & The 1993 WTC Bombing Memorial..........Enjoy!