Proposals For Ground Zero

How do you both foster economic development and honor those lost in the terrorist attack?

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January 17, 2002, 11:00 AM PST

"There are dozens of competing interests, each with their own ideas - from the developer that held the lease on the World Trade Center to the local bar owner in the neighborhood. It is a charged, emotional debate, but so far one in which great delicacy is being shown by all involved. And none more so than by the families of victims whose opinions reflect the vast - and sometimes contradictory - array of options, from turning the whole 16-acre site into a memorial, to rebuilding new towers of capitalist might as an answer to the terrorists' attack."

Thanks to Chris Steins

Read the full story: Multiple proposals emerge for ground zero

Wednesday, January 16, 2002 in The Christian Science Monitor

Community / Economic Development New York

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