World Trade Center Site

World Trade Center Site, Trinity Place Fulton Street. T September 11 terrorist attacks become popular visitors ( popular visitors before attacks, couple landmark buildings stood there). Various plaques display documenting history WTC.

T World Trade Center 16 (65,000 ²) estate which WTC complex stood N Y until September 11, 2001 attacks. T Lower Manhattan; (where buildings except 7 World Trade Center stood) bounded north y Vesey Street, y W S Highway, south y Liberty Street, y Church Street. I northern portion across Vesey Street, former location 7 World Trade Center bounded y Washington Street, north y Barclay Street, y W Broadway. Because lease World Trade Center purchased Jy 2001 y Larry Silverstein Silverstein Properties I. P Authority N Y N Jersey (PANYNJ) $3.2 billion, Silverstein controls rebuilding .

A memorial called "Reflecting Absence" being built site, designed y Israeli architect Michael A. A World Trade Center S Memorial Competition January 2004. T 16 (65,000 ²) project consists forest trees around square pools gaping holes center, where T Towers stood. Construction begun project scheduled completion y 2010.

Museum

LMDC staffers announced October 12, 2004 selection Gehry Partners LLP Snøhetta architects performing- museum complex Fulton Greenwich Streets. A "International Freedom Center" "Drawing Center" proposed complex.

G. Pataki withdrew support complex centers September 28, 2005 response criticism victims' families others. Snøhetta staffers redesigned complex January 2006. T p removed centers reduced building.

T museum planned "retell events y, display powerful artifacts, celebrate lives those ."