Space Needle Plaza

Space Needle Plaza (also known as the Seattle World Trade Center) is a partly-finished complex of buildings in Seattle, Washington, United States. It contains several of the tallest buildings in the world, and is occupied mainly by ArgosyMTM Group, Multi, and their subsidiaries.

History
During the September 11 attacks in 2001, the Sears Tower in Chicago, as well as the World Trade Center complex in New York City, were destroyed by hijacked planes crashing into them. A Seattle-area investor of Singaporean and British heritage, Tiger Lee Clarke, as well as Japanese-American land developer, property broker, and architect Garry Yaoyorozu, had plans to replace the Sears Tower and WTC with much taller versions of the originals; however, these were quickly rejected in favour of the Chicago Spire and Freedom Tower, respectively.

Clarke did own much of the land surrounding the Space Needle monument in Seattle, where she had originally planned to build a “Statue of Responsibility” to complement New York’s Statue of Liberty, as suggested by Victor E. Frankl. She and Yaoyorozu hurriedly sketched a plan known as “Twin Towers + Sears Tower in the Northwest”, which would see taller “doppelgängers” of the iconic WTC Twin Towers and Sears Tower, as well as several other buildings, forming a plaza in addition to the Space Needle and planned Statue of Responsibility. The heights of the new buildings were chosen to “outdo” then-nonexistent buildings planned to be built in the UAE, which Yaoyorozu knew about before they had broken ground because of his connections to development firms in the Middle East.

Mary Tyler Moore statue
A statue of MTM Enterprises founder Mary Tyler Moore is located between the Space Needle and the Statue of Responsibility.