As Trade Tower Rises, It's Not Quite What Was Planned

When President Obama visits 1 World Trade Center on Thursday, he will find a tower that is undeniably impressive and - even a year and a half before its scheduled completion - unquestionably a landmark of 21st-century New York. But it is not exactly the tower New Yorkers were led to believe they would see when the plans were unveiled in 2006. Since the Durst Organization joined the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in 2010 as the effective codeveloper of the project, it has revised ...

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