Remembering 9/11, and 11th anniversary site reconstruction

11th Anniversary of the One Wold Trade Center, New York City attack 9/11/01, nearly 3000 people died that day.

"Eleven years after terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, the new multibillion-dollar center once again dominates the Lower Manhattan skyline, the Associated Press reports.

Two views of one new building

Most of the 8-acre memorial quadrangle at the World Trade Center opened last year on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. Since then, about 4.5 million people have visited the memorial, with its twin reflecting pools where the towers stood. A museum being built in a cavern beneath the plaza is still incomplete. Work all but stopped last fall because of a funding dispute between the memorial foundation and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

One World Trade Center, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, will open in 2014 on the northwest corner of the trade center site with 3 million square feet of office space. Tenants so far include magazine publisher Conde Nast and the federal government's General Services Administration.

The first office building to open -- in October 2013 -- will be the 72-story 4 World Trade Center at the southeast corner of the site. Tenants will include the Port Authority, the bistate agency that owns the trade center site.  USA Today/Associated Press, 9/10/12, includes video, 2:16 minutes. "World Trade Center complex rises in fits and starts."

Related -  CNN, 9/10/12, 14 photos.    New York Times/City Room/David Dunlap, 9/11/12 "1 World Trade Center is a growing presence and a changed one," includes the the article photos (left view from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, right from Durst organization). Wikipedia, Historical  September 11, 2001  look back.  NBC New York, 9/11/12, includes  past naming of victims ceremony 9/11/11, articles, pictures, videos. 

Posted by Kathy Meeh