Posted Oct 8, 2010, 1:15 PM
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http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_389/portprovides.html
Port provides update to WTC Committee
BY Aline Reynolds
October 6 - 12, 2010
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“Construction is now underway on all parts of the site – it’s [been] a heck of a challenge, but it’s never been at that point before, and that’s something to celebrate,” said Janno Lieber, president of Silverstein Properties. And though Silverstein and the Port have come a long way in achieving that goal, their jobs are not quite finished, he said.
“We don’t just have to fill the buildings as a leasing matter,” Lieber said. “We have to make sure we have the kind of tenants that are going to support [Downtown] culture.”
...The W.T.C. is “a very special place that we hope will be an urban model for the country and even for the world,” he said, “and we’ve gotten most of the way there.”
The foundations of Towers 2 and 3 have been excavated, with set completion dates of 2012 and 2014-15, respectively. Greenwich Street, meanwhile, is expected to be fully restored by 2014.
...Ward assured the committee of the strengthened relationship between the Port and Silverstein in light of the recent financial agreement: “In all aspects we have certainty, for the first time, and a level of progress and public accountability,” he said.
Ward said the Port is finalizing negotiations with Westfield Group, an Australian shopping mall operator, to create approximately 500,000 square feet in retail space in Towers 2, 3 and 4.
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