Port Authority executive director Chris Ward apparently scheduled a few media interviews to run here during his European marketing trip for One World Trade Center (The Freedom Tower). In a Reuters story from over the weekend, Mr. Ward talked numbers on rents for the tower.
From the story:
“We’d be pleased in this market Read More
The back of Thursday’s Times A-section is torn over the World Trade Center fight.
There is a Times editorial defending the Port Authority and saying it should not be using its money to back financing on a speculative office tower, as the city and developer Larry Silverstein have demanded.
On the opposite Read More
At World Trade Center summit this afternoon, two governors, a mayor and a private developer are bound to Read More
Like virtually everything else involved with the World Trade Center redevelopment, the official phasing out of the name “Freedom Tower” has been a slow process.
The moniker designated by Governor Pataki in 2003 for the site’s tallest building—which is slated to rise to 1776 feet, if you count the tower’s 408-foot Read More
Here’s a clip of David Shuster, host of MSNBC’s "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," interviewing/lecturing Port Authority executive director Chris Ward on Friday about the delays surrounding the World Trade Center redevelopment. The interview capped off a weeklong series on the redevelopment, with Mr. Shuster on an apparent crusade to scrap the current redevelopment plans Read More
As the local representative for Manhattan and one of the most powerful people in state government, Sheldon Silver quite often gets his way with regard to decisions downtown. So it was a bit surprising today to hear Mr. Silver, at a rare Assembly hearing that he convened and led, call for new third-party oversight at Read More
Here’s Mayor Bloomberg on his Friday morning radio show with John Gambling on the World Trade Center and the Port Authority’s commitment to open the memorial by Sept. 11, 2011:
We all agree that the critical thing is that we have to have on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 the Memorial built with people being Read More
Port Authority executive director Chris Ward today presented his candid review of the outstanding challenges at the World Trade Center site, tossing out the existing timetables and listing more than a dozen unresolved issues that could add delays.
Mr. Ward’s announcement, as expected, did not outline any specific dates but rather the new director Read More
Governor David Paterson said today that he will likely move Moynihan Station under the purview of the Port Authority, dropping the imbroglio on the plate of soon-to-be-announced executive director Christopher Ward.
From The Observer’s Em Whitney:
David Paterson was on the WFAN "Boomer and Carton" show this morning, expressing frustration Read More
Governor David Paterson is planning to appoint Christopher Ward as executive director of the Port Authority, with an announcement to come as early as this afternoon, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.
Mr. Ward, the former commissioner of the city’s Department of Environmental Protection and a onetime Port Authority staffer, would Read More
