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and it had subleased 75,000 square feet (7,000 m) of its space. There were a couple possible reasons for this 1) The bank stated this about why they were holding to the space "to accommodate growth and optimize its space needs" 2) Analyst Andrew
Jenkins of Karnes Research Co. stated this about holding onto the space "The impact of throwing all the space on the market at one time, as well as trying to determine how to consolidate, probably played heavily in their thinking on stating that they would be taking the entire building."
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It also features a sixth-floor terrace that overlooks Trade and Tryon Street. It also hosts numerous conference rooms named after rivers and a 434-seat auditorium with broadcasting technology to host town halls broadcast to a wider bank audience. The 434-seat auditorium has also be used to host many board of director's meetings. In some cases these board meetings have drawn a lot of protesters, one such case was a May 2012 board meeting in the building drew 1,000 protestors.
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Lewis addressed these fears by saying "Speaking for my tenure, this will be the headquarters, and it will not be in New York." Initially the bank planned to occupy half of the 750,000 square feet (70,000 m) in the building and have it house 1,200 employees. The original construction cost estimate was $ 450 million. However, in June 2010 when the building opened the actual cost was $ 540 million for the building, hotel, and
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