6 Possible Plans Released to Restore Skyline in New York

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6 Possible Plans Released to Restore Skyline in New York

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New York on Tuesday released six possible plans for the destroyed World Trade Center site and adjacent areas, all of them incorporating a large, green memorial park and restoring the landmark skyline, but no building as high as the 110-story twin towers.

The six concepts, presented at a news conference near the 16-acre site where the center stood before the Sept. 11 hijacked plane attacks, would also include a transportation hub serving therest of the city and potentially new rail lines to its northern and eastern suburbs.

All of the plans included buildings for cultural uses, such as museums.

Each plan included a vision of a memorial park to the more than3,000 civilians and rescuers who were killed. Each plan also suggested between four and six buildings ranging from 45 stories to 80 stories high, some with a long TV antenna on top.

"What we are showing is a conceptual idea that each plan has a position of important architectural statement in the skyline," said Jack Beyer, founding partner of Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners, architectural consultants to New York city and state.

John Whitehead, chairman of the development group established by the city and state to oversee the planning, said "there will not be a solid block of boring buildings."

Whitehead, 80, a former U.S. diplomat and Wall Street financier,said he believed it was possible to preserve rights to commercial space and rebuild "a beautiful place of which we are proud" at thesite.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a state agency, owns the 16 acres, now a gaping hole eight stories deep after workers spent nine months clearing wreckage and human remains. Rights to the commercial and retail space belong to New York real estate developer Larry Silverstein and his Australian partner, mall magnate Frank Lowy of Westfield Holdings.

"The six plans are not blueprints," Whitehead said. "Each represents a package of proposed ideas. These ideas can be mixed and matched or reconstituted based on public input and architectural consultants' work."

The six plans were posted Tuesday on http:/www.RenewNYC.com for comment.

The plans made the victims' memorial a priority and all were named to reflect that -- Memorial Plaza, Memorial Square, MemorialTriangle, Memorial Garden, Memorial Park and Memorial Promenade.

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