Most of the mall was located underneath 4 and 5 World Trade Center, as well as under the Austin J. Tobin Plaza.

The main entrance was located on the south side of 4 World Trade Center facing Liberty Street with escalators going down into the concourse.

The other entrance was located on the east side of 5 World Trade Center facing Church Street.

Crew, Cole Haan, Sephora, Duane Reade, Gap, Sam Goody, Victoria's Secret and the Warner Bros.

On April 26, 2001 the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey agreed to lease the mall to the Westfield Group on a 99 year agreement.

A commonly reported story of eyewitnesses inside the mall at 8:46 a.m. EDT, when American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower, is of fireballs being fed by flaming jet fuel shooting down the elevator shafts and bursting out of the elevators inside the lobby, with many of the fireballs reaching as far as the mall itself.

As stated in the 9/11 Commission Report: The Port Authority's on-site commanding police officer was standing in the concourse when a fireball exploded out of the North Tower lobby, causing him to dive for cover.

[6]Survivor Allison Summers described the conditions in the mall right after the terrorist attack: I had almost reached the [Cortlandt Street] Uptown 1 and 9 station when there was an enormous explosion.

[7]Shortly after the first impact, water began spraying into the mall from broken pipes or activated sprinkler systems.

We want to create a real destination for visitors and shoppers, a center that will share many of the attributes of the city's great retail hubs.

At the same time, Westfield began marketing space in the mall and opened a leasing office in 7 World Trade Center.

Some tenants were also moving out, and the Port Authority was also rebuilding nine storefronts in front of the PATH station's entrance.

[19] These nine storefronts, which were considered prime retail space, were not available because that location had been the site of the former entrance to the temporary PATH station.