The announcements are coming one-by-one to seal up the April agreement between the Port Authority and Larry Silverstein--designs for the next three towers, a million square feet in commitments--but one promised element that you won't see by Thursday's deadline is any sort of conclusion about who will run the 428,000-plus square feet Read More
Checkout! Shortly before 9 a.m., the floodgates opened, and dozens of customers and a few television news crews bursted inside Trader Joe's on 14th Street. The perky, geeky staff (wearing green leis, of course) lined up to great them. After a few minutes of cheering (and some dancing), the staff sprinted over to their registers. Read More
On Sept. 17, officials in charge of rebuilding lower Manhattan will join architect Daniel Libeskind to unveil an updated plan for the redevelopment of Ground Zero.
To the untrained eye, the unveiling probably won't inspire any revelations about what the site will look like when it's completed in about 15 years: The dreary-looking technical drawings will, Read MoreDaniel Libeskind's plan for the redevelopment of Ground Zero may have won critical acclaim, but at least one powerful voice has begun to grumble. Westfield America, the retail-mall monolith that operated retail space in the Twin Towers, has become increasingly disgruntled with the redevelopment process and has raised objections to key elements of the design. Read More
Westfield America, which had just signed a 99-year lease to manage the World Trade Center's retail facilities when the towers came down on Sept. 11, is now vexing urban planners working on the redevelopment of the site.
Sources familiar with the planning process told The Observer that the company is pushing for a massive retail Read MoreOn April 30, city planners and architects gathered at the New York Marriott Financial Center for a final question-and-answer period before the May 6 deadline for applying for the biggest job in the city-and possibly the world: redeveloping the 16-acre site where the World Trade Center once stood.
The cutoff date is less than a month Read More