Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:59:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Louis Epstein
Subject: WTC Rebuilding #199:Pressures Building


http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/56214.htm
tells of Marriott,like Westfield,demanding back
the full space they lost(which the Libeskind plan
fails to offer them).

This article interestingly reveals that Yaro and
the Civic Alliance have apparently decided to back
Libeskind against efforts to change it...it has enough
of what they want to satisfy them(and therefore too
much to satisfy us!).

It's been suggested that Deutsche Bank may be upset too,
since the Libeskind plan assumes that their building (the
old Bankers Trust south of Liberty) will be replaced as
part of the plan.However,they might be bought out and seem
to be settling into the larger,newer former J.P. Morgan
headquarters at 60 Wall Street.

Meanwhile,I continue to urge one and all to write to Bank
of America to urge that they offer to anchor a new building
on the site IF it is a super-tall one...the relevant addresses
are in the March 2 2003 mailing #191 that is archived at
http://www.put.com/wtc/archive.html and I should send my own
letter to the list soon for consideration in writing yours.

I do prefer that these list mailings be archived there first,
not posted immediately to the web by anyone else as has been
done recently on the NYCS board by Jason Maeng.

Incidentally,I urge people to look over the online petitions
linked from http://www.put.com/wtc/ (the "No Ashes" petition
is still on its first 50 people while the mausoleum crowd claim
over 6000?).

New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver
(speaker@assembly.state.ny.us) has urged that
state offices be located in the new WTC to ease
the supposed tenant problem...moving out later
to make room for private-sector demand...exactly
as happened with the original WTC.A good idea to
praise him for this suggestion.

Speaker Silver's district hearing room on the 19th
floor of 250 Broadway will be the scene of Libeskind's
presentation of his plan to Community Board One next
Monday,April 15th,at 6 PM...those who can make it ought
to be there,otherwise seats will be taken by people
likely to push in the wrong direction.

We need to complete our panel of judges for our own
architectural competition....ANY ASSISTANCE ON THIS
URGENTLY APPRECIATED...so that we can get designs that
will blow Libeskind's out of the water and upset the
official applecart,securely placed under the public eye.

The official commentary on Libeskind's plan is open on
the web at http://www.imaginenyideas.org/Projects/Imagine/final_plan.asp
and comment cards are available at the reorganized exhibit at
the WFC Winter Garden...don't miss chances to make your voices
heard...we want taller occupied space on that site than they
wish to offer!

Meanwhile the official memorial competition is getting underway.
The jury for that will be announced within a week,I believe the
program was announced today.

Derek Turner has been more quiet than we expected,but has run a
poll of his plan against Libeskind's on his site...his older plan
with a shorter spire than Libeskind's is running behind but his
newer and taller one is running substantially ahead of it.

Yesterday I spoke to Justin Berzon,who besides offering his own
basic land-use plan of relocated duplicate Twins is now writing
a book on the WTC redevelopment process.

We all need to be active...remaining silent is the only way our
purported defeat can be effective.Our silence can even result in
what is finally built being even worse than now proposed...those
who want devastation and small scale to dominate will not be silent.
Fight the good fight!

See you on the 111th floor on 9-11-11!

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.