Who Decides What Happens At Ground Zero?

30 March 2002 - 11:00am

As downtown Manhattan is being reconfigured, there seems to be chorus of voices. But who is in charge of planning?

"The public authority charged with coming up with a plan for the land, John Whitehead’s Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, has so far managed to pull the neat trick of being both sprawling (at this rate, we’ll probably all be appointed to it sooner or later) and opaque. Who’s really in charge? Of the countless interest groups with a stake, which voices ring louder than others?In short, how do you cut through the cacophony? How do you tell which plans are for real and which are just well-intentioned static?"

Source: The New York Observer, April 1, 2002
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