Redesign yields heavily protected New York City Freedom Tower

Albany Democrat-Herald ^ | 6/30/05

[squirt-gun]

Just another retreat!

Let The Donald do it....He said he would duplicate exactly what the ragheads destroyed and yet make it one story taller...

Thats American thinking, not whimp junk!!!!

[boris]

"Is it economically profitable? Why build it at all?"

Who will insure it? At what rate?

Who will rent space in the biggest target in the world?

Is is safe from suitcase nukes?

Who would want to work in it?

--Boris

[Dutch Boy]

I'd like to see that too. Except I'd put a few big navy gun turrets on them.

[gg188]

there simply is no market in lower Manhattan for that much office space. In fact, I'll be very surprised if the building described in this article is completed by 2010. Larry Silverstein, the developer who owns the rights to build on this site, is in the process of re-building 7 World Trade Center -- the 52-story building at the north end of the site that also came down on 9/11. He has yet to sign a single tenant to a lease in that building.

AC---I am certainly not expert on the subject, but I am pretty sure that residential space in Manhattan is at a premium, with very high rents and selling prices for small amounts of space. Therefore, I wonder how a new "twin towers" comprised of 1000 prestige apartments in lower Manhattan would sell/rent?