Planners Warn Against Delaying Downtown Decisions

Delays in making decisions about Lower Manhattan could harm the financial service in the area.

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October 25, 2002, 12:00 PM PDT

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


"Diverted by the race for governor, interagency rivalries and a bit too much wishful thinking, the planning process in Lower Manhattan must begin showing results soon if it is to counter the very real threat that downtown could lose the financial-service industry, its economic backbone.This was the collective warning delivered Tuesday night — in bits and pieces and in slightly more politic language — by a half-dozen chairmen and chairwomen of the New York City Planning Commission, past and present, whose experience goes back to the days before the World Trade Center was built."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

Thursday, October 24, 2002 in The New York Times

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