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September 15, 2003

Company Ditching Ground Zero

New York City leaders should really rethink the new design for Ground Zero. Westfield America, the company that has the lease for retail space there wants to sell it. An officer of the company said,

While Westfield wanted to be part of the future of the World Trade Centre, we recognised the conflict between the interests of the public and the needs of our commercial/net lease rights. Selling our interest back to the Port will allow the public interests to take precedence.

In other words, Westfield doesn't want any part of the debate over the amount of commerce versus memorial there should be at Ground Zero.

"Westfield Set to Quit Ground Zero"

Posted by Sean Hackbarth in Economics at 09:19 PM | Comments (0)