Ground Zero: Underground Work Will Take Years

Years of underground rebuilding must be completed at the site of the World Trade Center before anything can be built above ground.

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March 27, 2002, 11:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"John C. Whitehead, the chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the joint city-state agency in charge of planning and coordinating the redevelopment projects, also said that while a conceptual outline of the effort would be released within about a month, an overall master plan for rebuilding the trade center site and redeveloping parts of the rest of Lower Manhattan would not emerge for some time."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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Wednesday, March 27, 2002 in The New York Times

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