EconWatch.com > The Battle For Ground Zero, Part 148

http://lawhawk.blogspot.com [A Blog For All] Although new Midtown buildings now fetch $75 and up, Bloomberg thinks Silverstein should charge $35 a foot - the rate at downtown addresses 25 years older.So, compared to Midtown, a business moving into 7 WTC not only gets a brand new building that has various tax breaks and other incentives, but a rent that is significantly below the price paid in Midtown. And the deals become more attractive as the transit links downtown undergo their renovation and expansion via the Calatrava transit hub at Ground Zero and the MTA's Fulton Street Transit Center over the next few years.

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Business Sweden Today: The Skanska USA Civil unit Slattery Skanska will conduct the project. Work on site will commence in July 2005 and is scheduled for completion in January 2008. (via Cosmos)

Food Blogs Live!: , there will be no connection between the World Trade Center E and the Cortlandt Street R/W, and some of the tunnels will be narrowed. The MTA hasn’t updated its information page about the project, so you can see what it was supposed to be here; (via Cosmos)

CITY DESKhttp://prorev.com/freedc.htm [CITY DESK] CITY HALL OUT TO KILL ONE OF DC'S MOST... : Although anti-immigrant prejudice is seldom explicit, its offspring crop up constantly in discussion of cab service -- concern over lack of knowledge of the city or cheating or "cleanliness." Since there is no evidence that DC cabs are any dirtier than those elsewhere, the question of cleanliness seems to suggest that something else is really being discussed here. One senses when reading Post complaints on this matter that it presumes if cabs were driven by a better class of employees under the control of proper members of the Board of Trade and Federal City Council, everything would be, for some reason, neater.

http://lawhawk.blogspot.com [A Blog For All] The Battle For Ground Zero, Part 142: Of all the pieces of the puzzle at Ground Zero, the ones that are actually moving forward are the transit hub, and preliminary work is underway on the Freedom Tower after a series of fits and starts. Calatrava's transit hub has been widely praised for its design, and it is hoped that additional rail links (including ongoing proposals to links to JFK or the other airports), plus the Fulton Street terminal redesign will enhance the accessibility and transit options in Lower Manhattan.

[Professor Yeti] Wish You (and Your Bike) Were Here: Page through magazines such as Outside and Conde Nast Traveler and you’ll find all kinds of articles and advertisements about trekking in Mongolia or feasting in Paris. The prose and ad copy, sometimes indistinguishable from each other, tantalize with descriptions of roughing it and finding enlightenment .

http://lawhawk.blogspot.com [A Blog For All] The Battle For Ground Zero, Part 120: Yet pols and the press condemn him - because he's in the private, not the public, sector.The New York Times looks at the environmentally sensitive 7 WTC and the Hearst Tower, which was designed by Sir Norman Foster's firm (and who could have been the designer of the Ground Zero master plan had the design competition actually looked at whether the designers had experience building skyscrapers and marrying old and new.

http://houstonstrategies.blogspot.com [Houstonstrategies.blogspot.com] Houston Strategies: The dynamics of downtown Houston: Partly this is because it’s incredibly easy to drive (and usually to park) in Houston. (Please don’t complain about our traffic, we’re much better off than most cities our size, especially in the urban core.) It’s also because we ignored our street and sidewalk environment and let it deteriorate so badly over so many years, its lack of value became ingrained in our local culture.

[Newyorkology.com] NewYorkology: A New York Travel Guide: The other scheduled downtown performers are Ollabelle, Pharaoh's Daughter, Brazilian Girls, Bill Ware Vibes, Citizen Cope, Ronan Tynan and PS 89 & PS 234 students. Each act will play a set lasting about 10 minutes, according to music blogger in-the-know Brooklyn Vegan.

Gothamgazette.com[Gothamgazette.com] Vision For 21st Century Lower Manhattan (Gotham Gazette. December ...: Lastly, underground: Construction has begun on a new PATH station at the World Trade Center site, and will begin soon on a new transit hub at Fulton and Broadway. The new stations will untangle the knot of fifteen subway lines that converge Downtown, and then connect to the PATH and AirTrain.

[Travisruse.com] News: "I felt by photographing not just the subway, but specifically during the commuter hours, I could relay a picture of the working masses of N.Y.C.," he wrote on his blog. Upon passing the one-year mark this month, Mr.

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