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 stacy122685
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MN | posted: 9/9/2002 at 6:39:23 PM ET
Have they actually decided yet what they're gonna do w/ ground zero--make a memorial, or rebuild the towers?
Because I was just wondering, what do you guys think? Because I know that some people out there think that the towers should be rebuilt, but I personally think that there should be just a memorial for the 9/11 victims there.
Take care,
Stacy 
|  moljul
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| posted: 9/9/2002 at 8:07:57 PM ET
I completely see where you are coming from but remember all the jobs and companies that were lost when all that prime business real estate was lost. If New York is going to recover, they need to get those businesses back. Unfortunatley the city is so crowded that a huge site like that can not go undeveloped. I think those who lost their lives would hopefully not want NYC to not be able to recover in order to preserve the area in which they were killed. Though obviously they can't just put some office buildings up forgetting what happened there. It is a difficult situation but I like the idea of incorporating a memorial within a building of business.
Stacy, in answer to your question. The last I heard, several proposals were submitted for what to do with the area. All of them had a memorial incorporated in the plan and many family members of the victims were part of the review process. I believe it ended with none of the plans being approved. So I think a bunch of architects went back to the drawing board. :-)
| Bwaybaby
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3/10/2001 | posted: 9/9/2002 at 8:12:45 PM ET
Well the site is on like what? 6 acres of land..so why not use the prime part of the site as a memorial then build some buildings around the perimeter?
| moljul
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| posted: 9/9/2002 at 9:06:23 PM ET
Ooo. My old picture has mysteriously reappeared. LOL
From the plans I saw in the paper, it seems like they have that same idea in mind. Many of the plans incorporated the "footprints" of the towers. Some left that area blank or put the memorial portion on the footprints. I think a lot of the comments from the victims' familes were that they really didn't want any structure built on the footprints because like you said, that is where their family members are buried. Just a few weeks ago, the man who owns the land or is the officially developer or something said it would be 2006 or 2008 before anything was built there.
|  Christine-NYC
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| posted: 9/10/2002 at 9:04:09 AM ET
I think they should have an architect design a circular-shaped building (not too tall, but big anough to get some businesses going again) that is a certain width; it would kinda be like a doughnut...with a hole in it.
The hole could be like a garden, with some sort of memorial in it. It could have 2 statues that mimc the Twin Towers with everyone's names engraved...and because it would be a garden, there would be beautiful flowers (and maybe water fountains) surrounding the towers.
Maybe this idea look better in my head, but try and picture it.
<3CMH<3
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