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Ted Weiss Federal Building
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The Ted Weiss Federal Building, also known as the Foley Square Federal Building, is a 34-story federal office tower at 290 Broadway in Lower Manhattan's Civic Center neighborhood, opened in 1994. Designed by the architecture firm Hellmuth Obata & Kassabaum (HOK) with Raquel Ramati Associates as design consultant, the building comprises an office tower and a three-story special function facility clad in Deer Isle granite. Its north-facing base features a colonnade toward Duane Street and artworks relating to the adjacent African Burial Ground National Monument, which is commemorated by a National Park Service visitor center housed at the building's ground level. The structure houses offices for the Internal Revenue Service, Environmental Protection Agency, and Government Accountability Office across its typical office floors. Originally opened as the Federal Office Building, it was renamed in 2003 to honor Ted Weiss, a U.S. representative from New York who served until his death in 1992. Construction was temporarily halted in October 1991 after human remains were discovered during excavation, leading to the removal of a proposed four-story pavilion from the design.
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