The Freedom Tower

The bane of politics is forgetting that history repeats itself.
“The original World Trade Center was an abomination in several respects, not the least of which was the simple fact that its creator, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, was never supposed to get into the commercial real estate business — especially not 13.4 million square feet of it,”say writers for the blog called A Stitch in Haste.
“For almost all of the Twin Towers’ existence, its tenants were almost exclusively the Port Authority itself, along with other state and federal government agencies — a boondoggle “government-to-government” welfare program.
“And we have learned absolutely nothing from that:
The federal and New York State governments have tentatively agreed to become anchor tenants in the Freedom Tower[.]
“The agreements, which would cover about 1 million of the 2.6 million square feet in the building, are a significant step forward in the development of the tower, which is seen by Gov. George E. Pataki and others as a symbol of the city’s resilience, but regarded by some critics as folly.”