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Where we stand and what's ahead for each project tffSWM FREEDOM TOWER 7 WORLD TRADE CENTER 14 Everyone involved demanded something differ­ ent from the building meant to replace foe Twin The new office building, designed by David Childs, is scheduled to open later this year or ISM Towers: Leaseholder Larry Silverstein wanted as early next At 52 stories, it will be five stories wl many square feet of office space as possible. Site v higher than the destroyed building on the same planner Daniel Libesidnd mnted a 1,776-foot ; \ sV site, but it will have less office space. high symbol Gov. George Pataki warned it fest. \ \ \\ \ Status Silverstein's architect, David Childs of Skidmore, A \ \\ ' .WWWM-Ma The exterior cladding is nearly complete, Owin^ and Merrill, came up with a design that \ \ \\ iUCENTER^^ MASTER FLAN making it the first new building to rise from tefi got mixed reviews, and that the police recently \ \ \V the rubble of Ground Zero. Aside from Silver­ rejected on security grounds. \ \— V. i W 1 stein Properties, the building still has no ten­ ants. 4^ OiiI Childs is working oa a new design. OuHook L BU4.

Outlook Vesey St - ■****>*.•< WwiWV. . . , The building could be a litmus test of The new design, to be unveiled tMs month, is «- Ground Zero’s future as a business center. pected to be radically different The tower was to Whether companies move into the new have opened tn 2009, but little is certain. Pataki TOWERIS tower could affect the prospects for the dictates the timeline and unveils the models, hut the Ik FREEDOM PERFORMING ^“’•lOWERl Freedom Tower, too. F 'Vit money is Silverstein’s. The Port Authority, a state >11 I** agency, owns the land; Silverstein holds a99-year JOWCR ARTS CENTER PATHSTATION fease. Ifs complicated, bid h's also very New Yot^ .'• • A«- •^1 Spanish architect Sandago Calatrava's glass-and- MEMORIAL i > WEDGE >«r«.>**< ': steel station features movable wings aid a retractable roof that will be opened every Sept Architect Michael Arad’s SzSO-jnUlian project > f\ 11. features a street level plaza landscaped by Petet 3 Stafatt tKlUOSVRlHSN ’ npwsSav pfiSro/aDd’C «!'l Walker and two sunken pools in the footprints . 4 Ground breaking for the building will be The Freedom Tower, as originaHy nnvisfoned, of the twin towers, Diid-summer, with completion scheduled for Tile Verizon building, left sHs next to the new 7 and the rnemorial designed te occitpy the St^ K^eATHfSISg^ 2W>9. World Trade Center. footprint Oi the Worid Trade Center towers. Final design Is under way; The water cascades are being tested in full-scale mock-u^ in Canada. 1 rr,'TERimMjfe OHdoak Considered the most innovative architectur­ Outteoli Construction is to begin next year and be complet­ /v-' k-SW Is . . .-OSC. a. al piece of Ground Zero redevelopment, the design has won nearly universal acclaim.

: Jr’ ' ed in time to open on Sept. 112(X^. Gov. Geo^ Pataki has pledged $300 million toward construc­ tion of the memorial as well as a museum and 9 ^aE. SO B CULTURAL CEHTERa .&'■ • ■ j'-'r:; ? . J d The $2-billion cost will be paid for by the Port Authority.

I IS® y performing arts center, but a private organization, the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, still needs to raise $500 million in donations. SB; if fei fc TOWERS '-i ;- ■

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SS! CULTURAL CENTER The Norwegkui architectural fins Sr^hettn is designing a double museum above the memorial B MEMORIAL AND «« ^.MEMORIAL .9^ Sept. U attacks, this is the building that every­ one wishes would simply disappear. Demoti­ tion has been delayed by environmental concerns. * X *7 t yV ’> '

Status plaza to house the Drawing Center aiKl the Interoa* tional Freedom Center. T)^ building Is meam to act idw ?#2l Demolition could begin In mid-summer once

1w a new company Is pitdeed to handle the job. as a gateway between the hustle of l^er Manhat­ Otrtkek •y tan and the somberness of the manorial. Once demolition is complete, a new office Status tower could eventually spring up in Its place Aller unveiling a widely aedaimed {HTliishi^ I — if and when the real estate market in ?-*3» concept last month. Snohetta is now developing a lower Manhattan rebounds. '4». detailed design. Some victixm’ families are ^Hl upset that unrelated museums will be situated so close to the memorial 'V" ♦’* OTHER TOWERS Outlook The attacks destroyed 10 million square feet of Groundbreaking is scheduled for 2007 with office space, and leaseholder Silverstein Intends ' ■'"XX x'' ■■■«■

completion in 2009. The budget is yet to be to rebuild it all spread out over the Freedom Tower, plus four other building. Llbeaklnd’s

te. detemuned but is almost certain to be more than $200 million, to be paid for by the World master plan specifies a spiral of towers of dilTer- •L--. ■ '■

Trade Center Memorial Foundation. teWCHWAtoWRa- em heights with slanted roofs. |CHUBaiS;Ml«|p Satus Sigi 1 Silveretein has selected architects for the four PERFORMING ARTS CENTER lowers, but so far none has been designed. New Architect Frank Gehry was hireri to design a new York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver § (N home for the Joyce International Dance Center V-- ■ 5 ■ last month called on the state to lease one of oi and the Signature Theater. these towers to use as a government building. Status Outlook ■w I Gehry’s design is scheduled to be unveiled early Silverstein has announced plans to begin H 1

s next year, but early signs indicate that tbs build' construction in 2009 and open one new < ing will cost more than its $200-million budget, tower every year beginning in 2012. But that o 5 •’ and the World Memorial Foundation has post­ poned fund-raising for the center. NOW ON NEWSOAY.COM I schedule depends on the demand for lower Manhattan office space. If the Freedom X Outtook forswre photos 3ndwpli^>‘ Tower stands unleased, construction on its •iCAV r rTwSN < iMiX Despite delays, rebuilding officials say the towage of Ground neighbors could be indefinitely delayed. I xLV:''■ Renderins of the Cuttwal Center. "We've created project is still on track axwl will open In 2009. < redewlotwnerel.^,t^)^,s§,^®' The abandoned Deutsche Bank building was a place w reflection, yet also a place of energy," souEta&STxn kepojuwu arcmitectusa]. na^onx severely damaged when the south tower collapsed LOWER MAMUATTAH nEVELOPMEKTCORP. WWWJRSOiKJ and will be demolished in the future. .: rr- 2 architect Craig Dykers of Snahetta. .....: \