Hope Turns to Faith In $10-Billion Rebuild

摘要

Two years after terrorists reduced the 12-million-sq-ft World Trade Center to rubble, officials charged with the site's $10-billion redevelopment are cautiously celebrating the end of a major bottleneck to the recovery of Ground Zero and Lower Manhattan by putting the final touches on a detailed plan for the 16-acre complex. "We're starting to pick up steam," says John N. Lieber, director of WTC development for Silverstein Properties Inc., New York City, the parent company of the entity that, along with retailer Westfield America Inc., had signed a 99-year lease on the trade center less than two months before Sept. 11, 2001. "A lot of the complicated political and policy decisions are coming together," says Lieber, whose job was created last March by WTC redeveloper Larry Silverstein. "It's an exciting time to get involved."