Re: WTC - Tragedy to Travesty
wvit100,<br /><br />The major problem of the design is that it does not meet the needs of the future.<br /><br />The original buildings had over 12 million square feet.<br /><br />The new design calls for just under 10 million square feet.<br /><br />The original buildings at the time of their demise, was near 100% occupied.<br /><br />So, if you build less square footage, how does that meet the needs of the future, when 12 million square feet weren't enough?<br /><br />And yes, I don't like the plans that they have come up with.<br /><br />The terrorist's destroyed 2 landmark towers and 5 smaller buildings.<br /><br />New design incorporates 1 tower with 5 smaller buildings.<br /><br />This is not what was promised to the people of NY right after the attacks!<br /><br />NYers were told that the 2 towers would be replaced!<br /><br />That is what the people here, that I've talked to, have all said and beleived would happen.<br /><br />NOW, there have been many people who have expressed their dislike for the designs here in NY, but those points of view are deliberatly kept out of the news because the conglomerate "LMDC" has seen to that, and seen to it that their ideas and plans are the only "right plans" and are completly leaving public opinion out of the negotiations, and is using the news media to see to it.<br /><br />The protests of the buildings designed are NEVER EVER COVERED ON THE NEWS!<br /><br />So, unless you are here in NYC, most people would not know about that!<br /><br />LMDC has a big opportunity here to give the people of NY what the city needs, OFFICE SPACE, and still be able to construct appropriate memorials to those who died.<br /><br />Did you know that the WTC site has grown in size?<br /><br />It's now 22 acres!!<br /><br />Yet, there will be less square footage?<br /><br />Then you claim that something should have been said over a year ago at the begginning of the design phase, well let me tell you how that worked...<br /><br />In order to get into one of those planning meetings, you had to go through an interview, in which if the LMDC determined that you and the organization you represent were not a threat to their plans for the site, you were admitted into the meetings.<br /><br />A very large group that promoted the rebuilding of the original design, were barred from these proceedings!<br /><br />A large group that opposed the reconstruction of the street grid over that hallowed ground , were barred from these proceedings!<br /><br />A large group that opposed building anything at that site, were also barred from these proceedings!<br /><br />So when did anyone have an opportunity to oppose the designs that they are planning to build!<br /><br />The LMDC has been hellbent on building what they percieved as the future of lower Manhattan, not what the needs of lower Manhattan!<br /><br />Hope you are ready to start trading your stocks on the New Jersey Stock Exchange , because thats where they are going to be moving to, when the square footage of office space required to sustain the stock exchange here in Manhattan has been depleted, which by the way, has already has been depleted.<br /><br />When lower Manhattan looses the stock exchange, then there would be no need to build anything on that site other than a memorial.<br /><br />Kenny
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