{"id":4378,"date":"2009-01-30T08:58:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T13:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4378"},"modified":"2009-01-30T08:58:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T13:58:22","slug":"the_freedom_plinth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/the_freedom_plinth.html","title":{"rendered":"The Freedom Plinth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2009\/01\/29\/2009-01-29_pedestals_may_standin_for_skyscrapers_at.html\">if we don&#8217;t build low-slung two-story retail at Ground Zero then the terrorists will have won<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The long-planned skyscrapers at Ground Zero will have to wait, but two low-slung buildings that could one day serve as their bases may go up soon, officials disclosed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The buildings would face each other along Church St., rising two to six stories and serving as stand-ins until towers can be built. <\/p>\n<p>They could even house world-class retail shops if recessionary ravages force new construction delays. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last thing the Port Authority will do is to leave holes and pits in the ground downtown,&#8221; said Port Authority Executive Director Chris Ward after a state Assembly hearing on the status of lower Manhattan redevelopment. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To avoid that, we will either build pedestals, which will allow some form of retail options and permit long-term subsequent construction, or build to grade.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Each would be engineered to support the immense towers that World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein intends to build on the 16-acre site. <\/p>\n<p>They would be constructed later, when the real estate market recovers. <\/p>\n<p>The pedestals would function as handsome, ultra-expensive stumps for the future buildings.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because if we don&#8217;t build low-slung two-story retail at Ground Zero then the terrorists will have won: The long-planned skyscrapers at Ground Zero will have to wait, but two low-slung buildings that could one day serve as their bases may go up soon, officials disclosed Thursday. The buildings would face each other along Church St., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-manhattan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378","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=4378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4379,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378\/revisions\/4379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}