The fact that a government official has this kind of authority over the redevelopment plans for Ground Zero is precisely why there's still a big gaping hole in the ground -- four years after 9/11.
WTC #7 is already built - no tenants except for Silverstein. this freedom tower is going to be a white elephant down there.
pardon my post #104. who is moving in down there? China is. China is the first tenant at the WTC:
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New York Daily News
Pataki touts China biz hub for WTC site
Friday, September 23rd, 2005
Gov. Pataki said yesterday that he expects a large real estate developer in China to take hundreds of thousands of square feet of office space in lower Manhattan for a new business center.
The China Center, as he called it, "will bring together Chinese companies to invest in New York," Pataki said.
In what would be a big boost to downtown recovery, Beijing-based Vantone Real Estate Co. is said to be considering up to 700,000 square feet at the World Trade Center site.
The publication Real Estate Weekly reported last month that Vantone representatives toured developer Larry Silverstein's 7World Trade Center, a 52-story tower nearing completion.
Vantone - known for the Vantone Center, an office tower complex in Beijing - is one of China's largest private developers.
Pataki, who met with Vantone chairman Feng Lun on Monday, is on a weeklong trade mission to China.
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IMO, since the Port Authority of NY & NJ owned the 16 acres, no one had the authority to sell it without our vote. We were paying for it.
And don't forget, it was sold, without our vote, only 2 months before 9/11.
And the discovery on the events leading up to 9/11 lends lots of suspicion as to who knew what was to come.