83 New York Construction 6/2006
Work began in March on the World
Trade Center memorial in Manhattan, a
highly anticipated project at the central
site of the Sept.
11 tragedy.
The Lower Manhattan Development
Corp.
, which is heading up development
of the...
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83 New York Construction 6/2006
Work began in March on the World
Trade Center memorial in Manhattan, a
highly anticipated project at the central
site of the Sept.
11 tragedy.
The Lower Manhattan Development
Corp.
, which is heading up development
of the project, plans to open the facilities
in September 2009.
The heart of the project is the creation
of Reflecting Absence, a 6-acre memorial
that will sprawl through the rectangular
trade center site.
It also will entail construction of a 100,000-sq.
-ft.
below-grade
memorial facility.
Separate projects not
yet begun will create a new visitors center
and a performing arts venue.
The development corporation reported
that the memorial-museum facility budget was $493 million in April, though it
planned on releasing an updated budget
later this spring.
Led by Bovis Lend Lease of New York as
construction manager, crews began site
preparation work in March, including debris removal, engineering and surveying
work, delivery of constructi
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