What is the Commodities Exchange Center?
The Commodities Exchange Center was a nine-story building located in the Lower Manhattan section of New York City. At one time, the Center, known popularly as the CEC housed a total of five different futures exchanges. For a number of years, the Commodities Exchange Center was home to the New York Futures Exchange, the Coffee Sugar and Cocoa Exchange, the New York Cotton Exchange, the New York Mercantile Exchange, and Commodity Exchange, Inc. As the physical base of operations for some of the most powerful exchanges in the United States, the Commodities Exchange Center was located at Four World Trade Center in New York City. Along with housing the five prominent futures exchanges, the building provided space to high level tenants like the New York Board of Trade and Deutsche Bank. Built in 1977, the Commodities Exchange Center offered just under 600,000 square feet of office space to the tenants. For just under quarter of a century, the Commodities Exchange Center building was consider
