Can’t the state or the feds declare the area near ground zero to be a national battlefield monument or other historical designation, which would add an extra layer of approval and take the decision out of the hands of the city? Recalling how VA kept Disney away from one of the civil war battlefields.
Brilliant... who owns the land? Shame the shameless into this, or, God forbid, scare? them into it... (oops, I sound like 0’s goons, or the jihadists)