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WTC owners offer plan to finance 2nd skyscraper

Jul. 10, 2009
The owners of ground zero have offered to partially fund the building of a second tower planned by a private developer. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says it will provide $1.2 billion for a skyscraper as long as developer Larry Silverstein...
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