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Rebuilding ground zero: How twin mandates of revival and remembrance reshaped Lower Manhattan

  • Written by Lynne B. Sagalyn, Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor Emerita of Real Estate at Columbia Business School, Columbia University
imageLower Manhattan's new skyline.NYC skyline via www.shutterstock.com

From the beginning, rebuilding ground zero was fraught with strategic consequence, for the city of New York and for the nation.

The original World Trade Center complex, completed in 1973, represented the culmination of a decades-long effort to revitalize the city’s founding...

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