Garvin Backs Mixed Use At WTC

Well-know planner Alexander Garvin, named to lead lower Manhattan's redevelopment, backs a mixed use plan.

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February 11, 2002, 8:00 AM PST

"According to a statement from the corporation, Garvin, 60, as vice president for planning, design and development, will "coordinate the formulation of comprehensive development plans for the World Trade Center site."The longtime member of the City Planning Commission and author of three books on urban planning is a close ally of Daniel Doctoroff, the deputy mayor for economic development and rebuilding who is the city liaison to the development corporation... "We have to connect Battery Park with the rest of Manhattan," said Alexander Garvin, whose appointment to the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. was announced yesterday. "We have to create a lower Manhattan that everybody wants to come to.'"

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Sunday, February 10, 2002 in Newsday

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