World Trade Center rebuilding controversy | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-16

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_site


00:01:13 1 Before the World Trade Center
00:02:38 2 Original buildings
00:04:18 2.1 September 11 attacks
00:05:28 2.2 Debris and clean-up
00:08:51 2.3 Archaeology
00:09:31 2.4 Ownership status
00:10:37 3 Planning for the new World Trade Center
00:13:00 3.1 Early proposals for redesign
00:13:10 3.1.1 Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
00:14:36 3.1.2 Directly after the attacks
00:15:52 3.1.3 2002 World Trade Center site design competition
00:20:11 3.2 Criticism of progress
00:22:13 4 New structures
00:22:28 4.1 Towers
00:28:05 4.2 Memorial and museum
00:30:52 4.3 Retail space
00:32:19 4.4 Transportation Hub
00:34:37 4.5 Performing Arts Center
00:36:41 4.6 Liberty Park and constituent structures
00:40:07 4.7 Fiterman Hall
00:41:13 5 Exclusive ZIP code
00:43:35 6 See also



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The World Trade Center site, formerly referred to as "Ground Zero" or "the Pile" immediately after the September 11 attacks, is a 14.6-acre (5.9 ha) area in Lower Manhattan in New York City. The site is bounded by Vesey Street to the north, the West Side Highway to the west, Liberty Street to the south, and Church Street to the east. The Port Authority owns the site's land (except for 7 World Trade Center). The previous World Trade Center complex stood on the site until it was destroyed in the September 11 attacks.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ), Silverstein Properties, and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) have overseen the reconstruction of the site as part of the new World Trade Center, following a master plan by Studio Daniel Libeskind. Developer Larry Silverstein holds the lease to retail and office space in four of the site's buildings.