Posted on 03/16/2006 7:49:18 PM PST by neverdem
One day after critical talks on the rebuilding effort at ground zero collapsed, the Pataki administration said yesterday that it would not reopen negotiations with the developer Larry A. Silverstein. It challenged him to start building the $2.3 billion Freedom Tower next month or "move out of the way."
The challenge came 12 hours after the abrupt breakdown of talks that had sought to resolve issues hindering the development of ground zero, where the sputtering efforts to develop the site of the Sept. 11 attack have become a glaring embarrassment for the city and state.
Facing a self-imposed midnight deadline, advisers to Gov. George E. Pataki negotiated for nearly 16 hours Tuesday trying to reach a deal in which Mr. Silverstein, who holds the lease for the site, would surrender control of the Freedom Tower and a second building to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the site's owner. That would have paved the way for an April groundbreaking for the Freedom Tower, the largest and most symbolic of five skyscrapers planned for the site.
The failure of the talks is just the latest problem to arise over plans to rebuild the World Trade Center site, from the fight over the original design to the dispute over a planned cultural center to fund-raising problems for a memorial, as well as continuing doubts of some critics as to whether the Freedom Tower is even a good idea.
At the center of it all is Mr. Silverstein, who, despite responding yesterday that he would still begin building next month, has not convinced...
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Have a laugh!
Wow, I never saw that one. Thanks.
What I've read about this in the Wall Street Journal and NY Post places most of the blame for the mess on Pataki.
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I was telling petronski that he really needs to read Atlas Shrugged to see how art imitates life :(
Anything that prevents the Big Gay Space Needle is fine with me.
Don't REPLACE. Follow the Trump plan: REBUILD!
They, esp. Pataki, don't have the stones to suggest such a thing.
I don't think he is a schmuck for not running in the Senate race. He had abdominal surgery twice since late February.
And "Uninted Consequences", and "Enemies, Foreign and Domestic".
oh, bother - "Unintended"
The more I get into the book, the more I despise government and liberal idealogues. I suppose that was her point *LOL*
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Hmmm...and Rudy had to bow out last time due to prostate cancer. Funny how that works when it comes to Hillary. If neither had health problems, the excuse would be 'to spend more time with my family.' Let's face it. There isn't a politician in the GOP that has the cojones to face Hillary no-holds-barred. She'll play victim to their "Lazio"...and they'll back off.
The only way that Hillary doesn't become President in '08 is because enough voters don't want Bill around the White House again (an iffy proposition). The GOP nominee will play by gentleman's rules against Hillary's jihad.
IMO, the only way for Hillary to win Presidency is by voter fraud. And I think the purges ChoicePoint is making will keep that from happening.
I really like the memorial design on that one. The official memorial seems to diminish the impact of what happened.
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