The contest to replace the fallen World Trade Center complex in New York City was the highest profile and most publicly debated architectural competition in US history and the person who would build the winning project wants nothing to do with it! Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein has only criticism for Daniel I.ibeskind's winning proposal, claiming, for example, that tenants will not be attracted to a building overlooking a graveyard memorial. In fact, many New Yorkers express a similar unease at working in a skyscraper on this site, especially one which might again become a symbolic target for terrorists. It is unlikely, in any event, that Silverstein will soon find tenants in this current property market for a new building and it may not be built for many years-if at all.
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