September 11 will mark 20 years since the ruinous attacks on the Twin Towers but the work to rebuild NYC's World Trade Center complex remains incomplete
Planned as the second tallest skyscraper at the site, 2 World Trade Center, might someday reach 80 stories. But for now, just a low stump of a building exists as a placeholder, covered with colourful graffiti-style murals at the northeast corner of the Trade Center site.
“At the end of the day, my goal is to put the shovel in the ground as soon as possible, and complete the rebuilding project we started 20 years ago,” Silverstein said in an emailed statement.After years of delays, the Ronald O Perelman Performing Arts Center is under construction just to the west of 2 World Trade Center's future site and is scheduled to open in 2023.
Once finished, the arts centre's top floor will house a flexible set of spaces that can be configured into one, two or three theatres for drama, dance, film and music. “All of the components are automated, so the walls move, the floor and the seats move,” said the centre’s president, Leslie Koch.
Slated for completion next year, the church is surrounded by a small public park and features a Byzantine-style dome and marble cladding that can be lit from within. Construction has yet to begin on the tower that will replace an office building, occupied by Deutsche Bank, that was damaged and contaminated by debris from the collapsing twin towers.
“We expect if everything goes according to plan that that building should be complete within about five years,” said Silverstein Properties' marketing executive Dara McQuillan.
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