According to popular belief in September 1901 the American Century began with the assassination of President William McKinley in New York State followed by the ascent of Theodore Roosevelt.
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David Dunlap in the New York Times notes that the official World Trade Center Commercial Design Guidelines have not been issued yet the Freedom Center, $2 billion subway station have already been designed and the presence of Norman Foster portends a signature building at Tower 2 (aka 200 Greenwich).
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Proponents of using WTC steel for a memorial in Chappaqua are in shock over New Castle Town’s 3-2 decision not to use the steel.
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Tongues are wagging that the proposed smaller (e.g., 65 story) buildings nearer the $2 billion subway station will be easier to rent than the Freedom Tower.
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Downtown Express picked up on the similarities on Sir Norman Foster’s original WTC plan and Michael Arad’s memorial design.
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LMDC Chairman John Whitehead says New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is out to personally get him in a flap over one of the biggest donors to the WTC Memorial Foundation.
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With the rush to bury Ground Zero and build a gigantic megaplex there you have to wonder how the Navy managed to win World War II while at the same protecting the Arizona.
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The constant LMDC argument in the plan to bury the WTC and its relics is that it will be historically accurate underground.
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In response to the Daily News blistering attack on waste and corruption at LMDC, the organization’s president Stefan Pryor responded saying LMDC policies have contributed to Lower Manhattan’s resurgence to where in many ways it’s better off than even before 911.
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Marriott Hotel is planning to bulldoze the Troy, Michigan, studio of where Architect Minoru Yamasaki designed the World Trade Center.
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Freedom Center Proponent Tom Bernstein says a 911 focus “will not stand the test of time.”
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Oklahoma intends to build a memorial to the War on Terror as soon as they can figure out when it started.
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Norman Foster, whose design to rebuild the World Trade Center was the early favorite but eventually rejected in 2002, has been named designer for World Trade Center 2 (now renamed 200 Greenwich).
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Members of the New York Stock Exchange voted to become a publically traded company and complete its merger with Archipelago Holdings clearing the way for the Big Board to do 24-hour electronic trading.
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The New York Times visited the full sized Ground Zero set for Oliver Stone’s movie (working title “World Trade Center”).
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