[cpprfld]

Yet it has taken the United States, 9 years and counting to build something at ground zero.

[cicero2k]

Yet it has taken the United States, 9 years and counting to build something at ground zero.

There's no market for extremely tall tower office space.

That said, something can and should be built there as an attraction, a monument and also commercially viable space.

A mosque within a mile would ruin the site.

[RobRoy]

>>Yet it has taken the United States, 9 years and counting to build something at ground zero.<<

Actually, that is incorrect. It is missing two words, and in that word is the MAIN problem in the US.

Here it is, with the needed words:

Yet it has taken the United States, 9 years and counting to START TO build something at ground zero.