Three Skyscrapers Targeted at World Trade Center Site
The latest plan for the seriously delayed and shrinking World Trade Center calls for dumping several skyscrapers. The Port Authority is proposing replacing Tower 2 and 3, at 200 and 175 Greenwich Street respectively, with a pair of “stumps,” four or five story buildings for retail use. They also hope to abandon all plans for Tower 5 at 130 Liberty Street, the site of the toxic Deutsche Bank building, leaving just two towers and half the office space originally envisioned. And just because the replacement designs are smaller doesn’t mean they’ll go up any faster. The so-called “stumps” could take a couple years to redesign, pushing completion of the site’s transportation hub past 2014. |NYDN|
by Will Sherman on May 11, 2009 at 12:47 pm
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That sucks…
i hate the way that these towers are going to be canceled they should cancel the wtc 5 building on the site of 130 liberty was
The towers aren’t canceled, Silverstein and the Port Authority needed time to settle their dispute, and just today as of August 19th the PA handed the control over to Silverstein, who wants to build the towers so they didn’t have to keep paying him 300K bucks a day for late fees.
They may not be built real soon but they definitely are not canceled, nobody listened to the PA’s plan because it was absurd and beyond stupid.