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<\/a><\/p>\nThere is something thrilling, no matter how many times we have seen it before, when a landscape that looks dead starts coming to life. The picture above is a study in the dichotomy of early spring — the brilliant buds and the leafless tree. We recognize the same promising signs in the long struggle for a worthy World Trade Center, and will not be surprised when it buds and blossoms.<\/p>\n
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One of those signs is that the lack of good sense behind the current project becomes clearer all the time. As the analyis by Nicole Gelinas in the NY Torch<\/em> makes clear, the Freedom Tower may be costing as much as twice what it’s worth. And as hard as diehard boosters, such as Steve Cuozzo at the NY Post <\/em> try, they can’t deny the shocking lack of interest in the building that the public took off Mr. Silverstein’s hands.<\/p>\n Now that the Port Authority is opening its books to auditors, it is a good time to audit all of the bewildering deals that seem to be a bonanza for a man who has none of his own money invested in the Trade Center site. Now that he is pulling $65 million out of 7 World Trade Center, how much of it is he reinvesting into the site?<\/p>\n NYTorch.com <\/em>| “World Trade Center figures for thought<\/a>“<\/strong><\/p>\n New York Post <\/em>| “Chadbourne & Parke WTC deal is ‘dead’<\/a>“<\/strong><\/p>\n GlobeSt.com<\/em> | “Silverstein to Refinance $577M in Bonds at 7 WTC<\/a>“<\/strong><\/p>\n The RealDeal.com<\/em> | “Silverstein refinances 7 WTC, takes out $65M in cash<\/a>“<\/strong><\/p>\n NorthJersey.com<\/em>| “9\/11 ‘Survivor Tree’ blossoms at start of spring<\/a>“<\/strong><\/p>\n Yahoo.com–AP <\/em>| “NYC has solar, wind power plans for old dump site<\/a>“<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is something thrilling, no matter how many times we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twintowersalliance.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twintowersalliance.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twintowersalliance.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twintowersalliance.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twintowersalliance.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/twintowersalliance.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twintowersalliance.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twintowersalliance.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twintowersalliance.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}