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Sure, the Port Authority has promised that the World Trade Center Memorial will be open for 10th anniversary events, but it will close for another year of construction right after. Port Authority Executive Director Chris Ward, who just last week released "probabilistic" timelines for various Ground Zero projects, testified in front of the City Council and revealed that the memorial's plaza wouldn't open until late 2012. And when City Councilman Alan Gerson asked, "Will any part of the site be generally open to the public to simply walk into without prescheduling?" Ward replied it would be "unlikely." Maybe by the 15th anniversary, then?
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I think you mean 9/11/11 in the title.
But anyways, it'll probably be open with just the frames of the tower footprints and that's it. At the pace of construction, 2012 may even be optimistic. The whole thing will just be a giant construction site through 2015 at least.
@thenebula, thanks, I did (and it's now changed).
And I agree that 2012 seems optimistic, what with all the different parties involved.
this is what happens when you contract the mob to do construction work. The original WTC took took only 2 years to construct for the first north tower and 3 years for the south tower! if you add in the groundbreaking in 1966 and the finished product in 1972 then you had 2 towers completed in 6 years from scratch. these are just motherfucking footprints and it's taking more than ten years.
What an embarrassment.
With the state of the economy right now it's more like 2020.
the architecture firm that is doing the memorial is terrible. They are developer architects. I am sure this thing will be a disaster.
sad sad sad. But let it have been the contractors familys in those buildings. This shyt would have been done. Ive seen land appear with homes in the middle of the ocean faster. Ill be a old man when this shyt is done and i was a 21 yo when I witnessed this uncomprehendable incident from the brooklyn promanade.
Any more of their bullshit and I'm gonna go "probaballistic".