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Nearly six years ago, in November 2003, a design called Reflecting Absence, by NYC Housing Authority architect Michael Arad, was selected as one of the finalists for the World Trade Center Memorial. His design featured two pools in the footprints of the WTC's towers, with waterfalls cascading down their sides, and in January 2004, the design, revised with landscape designer Peter Walker, was chosen as the winning design. Today, the Port Authority says the Memorial is slated to open on September 11, 2011, in time for the tenth anniversary. We spoke to Arad, now a partner at Handel Architects, for a few minutes yesterday and asked about the long road the project has taken.

This morning, the "Survivors' Staircase," which people escaping the World Trade Center used on September 11 and is the last remaining part of the WTC, was moved this morning. The staircase will be in storage just 200 feet from its location at Vesey and Church until it can be moved to the for a few months until it can be placed into the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.