Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:02:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Louis Epstein 
Subject: WTC Rebuilding #548:Monday,Tuesday,Listen and Speak!


Two items that Joy Goldberg alerted me to...

On July 1 (at 6 PM) there will be something that's
not exactly a public hearing...there will be a public information
meeting about the Deutsche Bank demolition at the 1 Liberty Plaza
offices of the development corporation (20th floor).They would
have to have a public hearing about future redevelopment but I
don't know if they will take any public comments or questions.
I'm also not sure how easy it is to get admitted,the family
groups in the past have been issued badges.

Still,anyone in the area then who's a pro-rebuilder might be
useful!

Also,yesterday's NY Post had a hard-hitting article by their
State Editor Frederic Dicker about the WTC project's cost overruns:
http://nypost.com/seven/06282008/news/regionalnews/massive_wtc_cost_overruns_look_grim_117568.htm

As we've warned,there may be even LESS built than the current
insufficient plans.The Calatrava transit station can't seem to
stay on budget despite cost-cutting redesigns there and at the
connected Fulton Street hub.If the Fraud'em Tower loses its
spire and HD antenna,and the Church Street dwarfs are further
diminished...how bad can we possibly look?

Doing the right thing of course can not be done on the cheap.
And we must be prepared to pay whatever it does cost.
But after a process that excluded good designs for not making
mandated mistakes who knows what officials will think of next.

But the WTCRM Architectural Competition is what offers the
guidelines for what they SHOULD do!

The Twin Towers Alliance has lately been promoting the Gardner-Belton
plan and I continue to regard design neutrality as critical to our
credibility as the voice of popular demand rather than any particular
dreamer's fan club.

But we all need to speak where we agree...whatever comes out of Paterson's
report we must denounce appeals to downsize and make appeals to upsize.
A smaller number of larger buildings that place a smaller memorial in the
proper perspective!

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The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.