{"id":1089,"date":"2006-05-26T09:58:27","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T17:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/05\/how_about_reconceptualizing_it_as_the_300_million_september_11_memorial_parking_garage.html"},"modified":"2006-05-26T09:58:27","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T17:58:27","slug":"how_about_recon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/how_about_recon.html","title":{"rendered":"How About Reconceptualizing It As The $300 Million September 11 Memorial Parking Garage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forget <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/billion_dollar.html\">$1 billion<\/a> &#8212; can the Sept. 11 memorial at Ground Zero <em>really<\/em> cost $500 million? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/05\/26\/nyregion\/26memorial.html?ex=1306296000&#038;en=a44d9776b62911f9&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">You don&#8217;t even know the three-fifths of it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The goal is a $500 million memorial. But some expenses are irreducible. A rough calculation suggests that it might cost $300 a square foot to build the simplest structure to fill the 70-foot-deep hole: four 250,000-square-foot floors with no memorial, no museum, no voids, no pools and no landscaping.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to cost you about $300 million,&#8221; [design committee co-chair] Mr. [Roland W.] Betts said, &#8220;just to get up there and build your windswept plaza.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At least a parking garage would recoup some money . . . and that would <em>really<\/em> show the evildoers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget $1 billion &#8212; can the Sept. 11 memorial at Ground Zero really cost $500 million? You don&#8217;t even know the three-fifths of it: The goal is a $500 million memorial. But some expenses are irreducible. A rough calculation suggests that it might cost $300 a square foot to build the simplest structure to fill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}