EconWatch.com > The Battle For Ground Zero, Part 140

http://lawhawk.blogspot.com [A Blog For All] Lehrer, a construction consultant working with the memorial foundation ”” were overseeing construction of the memorial. The situation changed, they said, when the estimated cost of the memorial shot to nearly $1 billion and it became clear that the memorial design would have to be changed to save money.

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