Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 12:03:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Louis Epstein
Subject: WTC Rebuilding News and Opportunities


A couple more items...both the NY Times and Post have
reported that Pataki has come out in support of shifting
some of the office space off the old superblock by condemning
surrounding properties...again,keeping the space requirement
on the superblock high is an important ingredient in squeezing
the buildings there taller.

Ex-Mayor Giuliiani,in the relevant Post article
(http://nypost.com/news/regionalnews/19744.htm)
has now come out on the extreme arch-memorialist
side,he wants nothing but a memorial on the 16
acres.SHAME!!!

The Post has decided to make its Saturday letter
columns special for public opinion on what should
be built,according to
http://nypost.com/postopinion/letters/19706.htm
(this week Towers fans maintain a clear lead,
let's use the special address rebuild@nypost.com
and make sure this keeps up!!)

Of course we need to send our expressions of
support for monumental-scale rebuilding flowing
wherever it can help,including in the site plan
commentaries and the online-LTTC dialogue.
Addresses are at http://www.put.com/wtc/ .

Volunteers for literature and petition tables
are still needed,let me know.Approaching people
at the Fed Hall exhibit to steer them to the table
should be tasteful and careful.

DON'T assume someone else will do it for you...
a critical mass of raised voices is the only way
we'll keep the pressure on.The other side will
try to wiggle out any way they can...Tomson
dodged and weaved at the Gotham Gazette chat,
first saying (when rebuilding the Towers was
suggested) they hadn't decided how to respond
to the monumental-skyline-presence desire,
then indicating that they were very unlikely
to build on the old footprints and he assumed
that was the only place in which rebuilding the
Towers was being suggested.

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The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.