Bill Goldstein

The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation came out with a press release formally acknowledging the new, higher estimates for Michael Arad's design, as reported this morning, and breaking out the $300 million infrastructure separately. In fact, the release never mentions the figure $300 million:

[T]he Foundation and by extension, its private donors, should not have to pay for site-wide infrastructure costs which include structural systems, mechanical fit out of the central chiller plant, and a police and emergency operations center.

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