Why has the World Trade Center memorial been delayed?
In a “60 Minutes” interview, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin reportedly answered a question about flooded vehicles with the statement, “You guys in New York can’t get a hole in the ground fixed, and it’s five years later. So let’s be fair” [ref]. The HowStuffWorks staff decided to do a little research on why, or whether, the project is behind schedule. After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, many people assumed that the World Trade Center site would become a memorial. But first, officials had to remove the debris from what came to be known as Ground Zero. The process of debris removal ended ahead of schedule and under budget in the spring 2002. New York Governor George E. Pataki and then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani created the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) to oversee the rebuilding of lower Manhattan. In April 2003, the LDMC annou
