Posted on 09/21/2006 12:05:52 PM PDT by Triggerhippie
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Thursday formally approved rebuilding plans for the site of the World Trade Center destroyed in the September 11, 2001, attacks.
The deal with developer Larry Silverstein, approved at the authority's monthly board meeting, gave the developer four and a half years and an additional one-year grace period to complete the building of Towers 2, 3 and 4 on the site, or lose his lease.
In addition, the Port Authority agreed to pay Silverstein $300,00O a day if it failed to prepare the site for rebuilding by certain deadlines.
The deal is pending finalization of certain legal documents. Assuming those documents are completed shortly, that would see rebuilding completed by 2012 -- the year Silverstein has said he will have finished rebuilding the site.
"This is an historic event that details a specific financial plan for this massive rebuilding project, lists deadlines for various milestones and moves us toward a swift completion date," New York Gov. George Pataki said in a statement.
Under the plan, building of the tallest building on the site known as Ground Zero -- the Freedom Tower -- will be completed by 2011 and will open to tenants the following year.
The project has been a source of contention since the immediate aftermath of the suicide hijacking attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
The architectural master plan and memorial have sparked often emotional debate, although much of the fighting has had more to do with dividing the billions of dollars at stake.
And the Earth continues to rotate.
as always : )
I agree with your parenthetical comment but can we have some context?
Pataki is an ass also.
DIMS :"We were attacked, when?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBfUXzvCODY
I believe that is the link from his 9/11 whiny rant.
WOW! What an asshole Olberman is!
About frickin time. Every day these egomaniacs sit there with their thumbs up their backsides taking longer and longer to start this project, as we continue to look at a empty hole in the ground, AL-Queda and the ROP wins.
LOL! Too true.
I think that insults the jackass. He is way beyond ass. He is a moron. If they get this freedom tower built lets put the UN on the top floors.
I think the only true monument to those who died at the WTC would be to build the two towers back to as they were originally. Anything less is a victory for the terrorists.
That photo is an affront to all us diehard Red Wing fans who call ourselves "wing-nuts"
lol
"Put the UN on the top floors"
Give that man a ceee-gar!
Just above the DNC!!
Thank you for posting the link to his rant, I had not seen it before. I always thought he was an a--hole but now I realize he's a world-class a--hole. Tens across the board for Olberman's AH qoutient!
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