THE FREEDOM TOWER FINALIZED TO BE BUILT ON 9/11 WTC SITE
Design architect David Childs and architect Daniel Libeskind (right) pose on Dec. 19, 2003 with the scale model of their "Freedom Tower" which will be built on the destroyed World Trade Center site owned by developer Larry Silverstein (center). (UPI/Ezio Petersen)
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NEW YORK, March 25 (UPI) -- Officials and developers Thursday announced tentative agreement on a plan to construct two skyscrapers at the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York.
NEW YORK, March 28 (UPI) -- New York City and its contractors aren't immune from bodily injury lawsuits arising from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a federal court ruled.
NEW YORK, March 13 (UPI) -- Work on two out of three World Trade Center towers at Ground Zero in New York is set to start this week, site developer Larry Silverstein said.
NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is racking up costly penalties for missing a deadline to complete preparations at the World Trade Center site.
NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the developer of the World Trade Center have reached an agreement on rebuilding the iconic site.
NEW YORK, May 24 (UPI) -- The first structure erected near where New York's World Trade Center towers stood before being destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001, is a 52-story office building. At the gala opening Tuesday of 7 World Trade Center, developer Larry Silverstein called it a "reflec
NEW YORK, March 15 (UPI) -- Talks between the New York Port Authority and a developer to rebuild Ground Zero have broken down acrimoniously over financing, reports said Wednesday.
NEW YORK, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- New York Gov. George Pataki wants a second office building at Ground Zero to be built as "soon as possible."
NEW YORK, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- A jury Monday said New York developer Larry Silverstein, who held the commercial lease of the World Trade Center, is entitled to $2.2 billion in insurance.
NEW YORK, May 4 (UPI) -- A federal jury has sided with the largest insurer of New York's World Trade Center, saying the two towers collapsed due to a single event.
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