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One World Trade Center Replaces Freedom Tower at Ground Zero
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by Tina Kells | March 27, 2009 at 03:23 pm
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The New York Port Authority announced today that the skyscraper it is planning to build on the World Trade Center ground zero site will be officially called One World Trade Center. It will not be named the Freedom Tower, although it will likely still be called this by New Yorkers.
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The NY Port Authority felt that the One World Trade Center name was more welcoming to potential tenants in the building. Tenants of the new tower, built in part as a memorial to the September 11 attacks, will likely be multi-national corporations and it was felt that a common name like Freedom Tower may hurt occupancy.
The reason for the name swapping? One World Trade Center is more marketable, said Steve Sigmund, a spokesman for the Port Authority.
"We believe there's been a good response in the marketplace toward it," Sigmund said Thursday.
The 102-story building, under construction at the 16-acre site, was named the Freedom Tower in the first Ground Zero master plan. At the time, officials said the tallest, most symbolic of five planned towers at the site would demonstrate the nation's triumph over terrorism.
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at 16:28 on March 27th, 2009
If I was them I would call it The Twins Towers again. Build two there again...
Rev. Jermano
at 21:40 on March 27th, 2009
Personally, One World Trade Center sounds much better and more familiar. The subway's signs certainly point to the World Trade Center, and not the Freedom Tower.