Is there a website where I can find information about Memorial Ground Open 2011?”
New York, Sep 27 (IANS) Officials have said they have come out with a new plan to complete the 9/11 memorial at ground zero in time ahead of the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York.Officials with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ), a bi-state port district that runs most of the regional transportation infrastructure, have expressed confidence that under the new plan most elements of the memorial – a broad landscaped plaza, waterfalls that flow into two underground chambers where the twin towers stood, and parapet walls lined with the names of those killed in the attacks in 2001 and in 1993 – will be completed by August 2011, the New York Times reported Friday. The twin towers collapsed hours after they were hit by two US planes hijacked by Al Qaeda militants Sep 11, 2001. More than 2,000 people were killed in that worst ever terrorist attack on the US. City and Port Authority officials were reluctant to dis
Looking down into the construction site covering the 16 acres where the World Trade Center once stood, some might see a place shadowed by death. But Cheryl Palmer sees a rebirth — and a business opportunity. She’s vice president of Club Quarters Inc., the company opening the World Center Hotel — and as far as she’s concerned, the property’s location on the edge of the site of the Sept. 11 attacks is a selling point. “People choose to be here because they want to be close to it. They want to feel it, they want to celebrate. They want to remember,” she said, standing by an open-air patio overlooking the site. “We have a very accessible view on it.” The hotel, which began taking reservations last month, offers some rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows that open directly onto the construction. Guests and members will have access to the restaurant patio with views of giant cranes, jackhammers and metal scaffolding. It seems to be the first area hotel to use its proximity to the site as a mar
