World Trade Centre, building begins

[Susie]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070111/ap_on_re_us/attacks_redevelopment


Thu Jan 11, 2:05 AM ET



NEW YORK - The World Trade Center site's owners are laying a small piece of a new foundation for three planned skyscrapers at ground zero.




Construction workers have been digging an 85-foot trench to build the retaining wall to hold the foundations for the towers, which are scheduled to begin construction over the next two years.

Workers for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey planned to set in place steel for the first panel of the 1,600-foot-long wall on Thursday morning.

"The start of the foundation work for the east side of the site is an important step in living up to the Port Authority's commitment to rebuilding," agency chairman Anthony R. Coscia said.

The agency promised trade center site developer Larry Silverstein it would build the foundations for the three skyscrapers by the end of 2008.

The towers would descend in height from the iconic, 1,776-foot Freedom Tower, forming a spiral around a memorial to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The office buildings are scheduled to open between 2011 and 2013.

[DEE F]

I for one wouldnt want to work in there, dont think I could ever relax, knowing what had happened, I think its a bad idea, perhaps just a memorial would have been a better option, but then what do I know.

Dee xx

[Emmalee25]

I agree with you Dee,
Ive had dinner at the top of the South Tower, and was in absolute shock when i saw it fall, havent been to New York since and I used to go at least twice a year before they fell.
I dont like the idea of new towers, I mean, I can understand the "UP Yours" attitude to Al Queda and the like, by building bigger and better towers, but what about all those poor people who perished there....
I think keeping the memorial garden would have been a nicer idea!

Emma x

[Susie]

It worries me that the terrorists will just wait for the re-build and hit again, I dod not think it is a good idea either but then again, its prime real estate and something had to be rebuilt on it

Again, money matters here