mayor michael bolton seeming ambivalent to the switch , saying " i would hate to seeing it stay the republic tower , but it ' s their building , and they don ' t need me dumping on it . if they could rent the old lot by modification the label , i guess they ' re planning to do that , and they probably , from a responsible point of view , should . from a patriotic point of view , is it going to make any worse ? " .
The Freedom Tower belongs to Michael Bloomberg.