Reporter: Mr. Mayor, are you concerned about Larry Silverstein delaying Ground Zero for years and then walking away with a half a billion dollars?

Mayor: Well, there was a story in the paper that talked about the city’s analysis, which interestingly was virtually identical with the Port Authority’s analysis of the economic future of the commercial development down at the World Trade Center site. Both studies concluded that with the most optimistic defendable occupancy rates and rental rates, that in four or so years, Silverstein would run out of money ….