The Great Race
by Lionel Bascom — September 15th, 2006 — 1 comment
The Port Authority and World Trade Center Developer developer Larry Silverstein are on the clock. Silverstein and the PA own Ground Zero and they’re racing to meet a September 21 deadline to find enough tenants to make the proposed buildings on the site worthwhile.
The owners are trying to find enough tenants to fill one million square feet in the Freedom Tower building. A spokesman for the PA has said they expect prospective tenants to fill the spade by the deadline.
Signed leases by government agencies are critical to running the building or opening it on time. In a related development, the Downtown Express says another potential problem involving construction of the tower is related to security for the Church St. towers. “The N.Y.P.D. has reportedly not yet signed off on the security plan, and similar concerns delayed Freedom Tower construction by two years.” But “Silverstein said the three new towers will have tight security office entrances on Greenwich St., but the Church St. stores will have to be more open in order to be attractive to retailers. “People have to be able to walk into them,” he said.
11:09 PM in The Construction, Ground Zero, Freedom Tower News
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The metaphor of a timepiece is quite intriguing in that the actual clock, while necessary in measuring the outcome of a race, is dependent on the individual intentions of each participant of the race. If the PA and Silverstein are the clock, then they need to be aware the individual needs of the race participants: those responsible for the future security of the Freedom Tower and its neighbors and the concerned future tennants.
Allowing accessible entrance to the Church Street businesses may cause security to quake a bit, perhaps, or perhaps, this may not be a problem in the long run, as the ‘runners’ break through their ‘walls’ of conventional thought and eventually tap into their reserve of creative security measures in order to win this race and attract the required number of tennants.
The clock will continue to relay the data, but the runners will respond to the matters of personal survival in their own fashion, and all will reach their common goal of finishing in the right place at the right time.
This great race will be run to its perfect conclusion unless, of course, the timepiece is broken, but even then, “a broken clock is still accurate twice each day.”
Jeanne · September 16th, 2006 at 1:56 am