NY gov to World Trade Center site developer: We could redesign ground zero without you
By APMonday, August 3, 2009
NY gov: We could redesign WTC without developer
NEW YORK — New York Gov. David Paterson has given World Trade Center site developer Larry Silverstein an ultimatum in talks over his ground zero lease. He says the site could be redesigned without Silverstein’s buildings.
Paterson wrote a letter Monday offering to have the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey help finance two of Silverstein’s planned three office towers at the site.
The agency has said Silverstein would have to put up over $600 million of his own money to receive financial backing for the second tower.
A spokesman for the developer didn’t immediately return a telephone call Monday.
Paterson says he’s asked the Port Authority to come up with new site designs that would let the Sept. 11 memorial and other public projects go forward without Silverstein, if needed.
