The Freedom Tower

It is one of the ironies of our times. While the developers and the new owners of the World Trade Center properties at Ground Zero scramble to find tenants to fill the millions of square feet of vacant office space, employees of the agency that now own the Freedom Tower say they won’t move in.
The WTC is owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. In a series of interviews and press reports, it has become widely known than PA employees are refusing to move into a building on a site where they’ve been attacked, not once, but twice since 1993. “Twice these people were the subject of that attack, and I am not going to ask them to move into that building,” PA chairman Anthony Coscia told reporters for the Bergen County (N.J. ) Record. Federal and state agencies have said they’d move their offices to the World Trade Center site. A PA spokesman said they believe the Freedom Tower will be safe to move into but the building would simply carry too much emotional weight for people who’ve twice been the victims of attacks in that exact location.”
A truck bomb in 1993 killed six people at the trade center, where the Port Authority was based. Hijackers flew airliners into the towers on Sept. 11, 2001, destroying them and killing nearly 3,000 people.