The biggest bank in the world officially opened its new global headquarters \u2014 \u201cour gift to the city,\u201d per David Arena, JPMorgan Chase & Co.\u2019s head of real estate \u2014 on Oct. 21, in a ceremony that included new age author Deepak Chopra saying that he hopes the building will \u201cremind us that the true currency of life is consciousness itself.\u201d<\/p>\n
In reality, the 1,388-foot-tall skyscraper serves to remind New Yorkers that JPMorgan Chase is not only a global bank but also a major developer, one with a propensity for adding boxlike architecture to the city\u2019s iconic skyline. (See also: 28 Liberty Street, formerly known as One Chase Manhattan Plaza<\/a>, the brainchild of an earlier chairman, David Rockefeller.) The current chairman and CEO, Jamie Dimon, loves to talk about his bank\u2019s \u201cfortress balance sheet\u201d \u2014 well, 270 Park is the fortress metaphor realized in steel, bronze, and glass. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The biggest bank in the world officially opened its new global headquarters \u2014 \u201cour gift to the city,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5462,5915,20595,3339,5869,20596,2375,8697,4043,9,11,10,9943,1491],"class_list":{"0":"post-34701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-architecture","9":"tag-c-suite","10":"tag-chase-manhattan","11":"tag-cities","12":"tag-citylab","13":"tag-currency","14":"tag-jamie-dimon","15":"tag-jpmorgan-chase-co","16":"tag-london","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-headlines","19":"tag-new-york-news","20":"tag-pursuits","21":"tag-real-estate"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}