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 [Nytimes.com] Pataki and Silverstein Inch Closer to a Deal on the Trade Center ...: The developer, who has the obligation to rebuild all the commercial space at the World Trade Center site under his lease with the Port Authority, would not have to build and lease a 2.6-million-square-foot tower. The authority would take control of the skyscraper, which is widely thought to be too big, wrongly placed and unlikely to be rented to corporate tenants, who view it as a potential target.

[Artsjournal.com] ArtsJournal: STICKS & STONES: A layout that proved very hard to rent during much of that tower’s life and now has no place in downtown environments where people are supposed to be working together not pushing paper solo. (Silverstein has failed to find a tenant for the similar 7 World Trade Center, which he has been marketing for more than a year.) These commodity buildings are suitable for commodity jobs: the call centers and back offices of the suburbs—jobs which are beginning to leave America, by the way.

 [Msnbc.msn.com] Hardblogger: Disgust over politicizing of Schiavo case - Hardball ...: presidential politics.  New York Governor George Pataki (who has always backed the LMDC and the Freedom Tower) has made no secret of his 2008 presidential ambitions.  And on the face of it, Pataki could be a formidable candidate.   But imagine what will happen if John McCain holds a news conference, discusses the ongoing problems with the Freedom Tower, speaks about the need for America to stand tall, not weak, and declares that nothing is acceptable other than stronger, taller, Twin Towers.  "Under this scenario," a political strategist told me, "Pataki would be dead, absolutely dead."  Now imagine if Hillary Rodham Clinton is the first to hold such a news conference.  As everybody in the U.S. Senate knows, Mrs. Clinton is preparing for a possible 2008 run by moving to the center, bolstering her standing on red state values issues, and looking for ways to demonstrate leadership and "toughness" on foreign policy issues.  On the issue of terrorism, what would be "tougher" than bashing George Pataki's Freedom Tower and demanding, in the name of true freedom from our enemies, that the Twin Towers be rebuilt.

[Teamtwintowers.org] Team Twin Towers | NEWS | News: Pataki's mishandling of Ground Zero can arguably be the biggest display of a personal agenda New York has ever seen. If this is the way he handled Ground Zero, what makes him think in his most wildest of dreams that he can handle an entire country, our United States of America.

 [A Blog For All] The Battle For Ground Zero, Part 150: The lawsuit, filed yesterday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, said seven of the two dozen insurers at the World Trade Center, including Allianz, Royal Indemnity and Travelers, "have persistently sought to shirk their contractual obligations to pay insurance coverage."

BIRD: Now, after four-and-a-half years of press conferences, ribbon-cuttings and groundbreakings (the Freedom Tower has had two), at which the lost 343 firefighters were invoked and the memorial and museum was touted as the 'centerpiece' around which hundreds of millions of dollars in spending projects would turn, Gov. Pataki and Mayor Michael Bloomberg have teamed up to tell the public that it's time to 'rethink' the project where the history of those valiant firefighters will be secured.

 [A Blog For All] The Battle For Ground Zero, Part 147: The temporary PATH terminal is going to be relocated to Vesey Street from its current location on Church, so that the permanent PATH terminal designed by Santiago Calatrava can be built. The new temporary PATH terminal entrance will eventually be replaced by Frank Gehry's performing arts center.

 [TheChurchMilitant] Take Back the Memorial Update.: They came and would not leave, an army of ironworkers and heavy-equipment operators, stopping only when the scent-trained dogs barked out a signal. They cut and moved twisted steel and steaming concrete, clearing an astonishing 1.8 million tons in a continuous convoy of trucks and a 20,000-barge armada.

 [A Blog For All] The Battle for Ground Zero, Part 145: Such blasting would reduce the time to complete this portion of the excavation to two months. The alternative would be thousands of hours of men using jackhammers and heavy machinery.

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