It is truly mind-boggling to sit in the living room of our Manhattan apartment and watch the rebuilding at Ground Zero. Yes, the site of the terrorist attack on 9/11 that left only rubble is just down the street from us. Now one of the replacement skyscrapers towers above us. It seems it grows each day. It wasn’t so long ago that it first jutted into a corner of our view. Now it dominates. It climbs closer and closer to scraping the sky. As I sit here, at this moment, a huge crane is lowering the structure of one more floor into place. Tomorrow it will be another and then another. The first replacement tower is to be completed in time for the 10th anniversary of 9/11 on September 11, 2011.
Conde Nast Publishing with its 3000 employees is the first tenant to sign a long term lease in the initial replacement tower designated as One World Trade Center. Many more tenants are anticipated. Also being constructed on the site with a completion date of September 11, 2011 is the 9/11 Memorial with fountains, pools, and trees.
Perhaps the two photos to the right will provide a small representation of this mind-boggling construction process. More information is available at the port authority website.
Stay tuned to this blog for an account of our trip to Philadelphia to see and hear the Wanamaker Organ…the largest organ in the world.
Stan the Man
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