Annual rents in the 58-floor, 2.254 million-square-foot building are in the high $30's a square foot.
The 1.2 million-square-foot building was bought for $300 million by someone who has been identified publicly only as an "offshore investor."
Nomura had five floors with 150,000 square feet in the million-square-foot building.
Official planning began in 1983, with a master plan for a new 1.4 million-square-foot building completed in 1986.
The 1.4 million-square-foot building was seriously damaged in the 2001 attack and has never reopened.
But the 15-story, 1.5 million-square-foot building, which stretches from 33d to 31st Streets, was built for light manufacturing and warehousing companies.
And there is still about 100,000 square feet in the 1.6 million-square-foot building that has yet to be renovated.
The rest of the million-square-foot building has yet to be renovated.
The company has approval to build a million-square-foot building on the site, but officials said the 10-year-old existing design would probably be modified.
The company already occupies about 385,000 square feet in the 44-story, 1.7- million-square-foot building between 47th and 48th Streets.