11. Parts of five city streets were closed in the 1960s to create the superblock from which the twin towers rose. 12. In 1965, Cortlandt Street west of Church Street was demolished to create the superblock of the World Trade Center. 13. A recent superblock user is the merchandise distribution centre, which can range in area from one to ten city blocks. 14. Additional users of the superblock concept are large national or multinational corporations who constructed campuses in the late 1900s and 2000s. 15. WXPN-AM then became WQHS, which stands for Quad Hill Superblock ( referring to student dormitories on campus ). 16. The block immediately to the south of the station, bound by Metropolitan Avenue, Union Turnpike became an industrial superblock . 17. The Lab s plutonium research is conducted in a specially designed facility called the SuperBlock , with emphasis on safety and security. 18. All superblock mirrors are updated in tandem, except in SSD mode which alternates updates among mirrors to provide some wear levelling. 19. But at Lincoln Center the designers rejected an initial plan that buried the open space inside the superblock , like at Rockefeller Center. 20. The whole superblock project and especially the high-rise design were widely criticized, but this view is not held by everyone.
