Brookfield Place, (as the World Financial Center) as it appeared in April 2011. One World Trade Center is being constructed in the background, behind the Brookfield Place towers. Brookfield Place, built as and still commonly referred to as the World Financial Center, is a shopping center[1] and office-building complex located across West Street from the World Trade Center site in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Overlooking the Hudson River, Brookfield Place has been home to offices of various companies including Merrill Lynch, RBC Capital Markets, Nomura Group, American Express, Bank of New York Mellon, Time Inc. and Brookfield Asset Management, among others. In 2014, the complex was given its current name following the completion of extensive renovations.