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Old Posted Jul 16, 2009, 2:23 PM
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Originally Posted by drumz0rz View Post
As much as I hate the idea of them building a mall stump of a skyscraper, and how bad of an idea that sounds, they really need to do something. This whole redevelopment has taken waaay to long as is. I don't want to see a nice finished 1 WTC, a nice finished 2 WTC, nice finished museum / footprints, with trees and paths, and then a big fenced off hole in the ground where 3 WTC should be.
It won't be a hole in the ground. They have to get it built to street level regardless of whatever rises above. Putting a shopping mall there would only mean it's there to stay, because in the few years it would actually take to get that built, the market would have recovered enough to get the tower built. No one is going to commit to that amount of retail space for a couple of years.
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