Reply #4: I get the feeling that Conservatives are more in favor of Rebuilding [View All]

[mot78]

Personally, this is the only issue where I agree with rw media in my native NYC. The NYTimes keeps peddling lies about Downtown's economic state, by exaggerating office vacancies, and about exaggerating fear of tall buildings (which I think are being way overblown, because there are ways to make them safer).

Another problem I have with this process is that the Survivor's groups are having too much lee-way in this process. It doesn't make sense to memorialize every square-inch of land just because the ash of a person happened to land there. Downtown cannot be turned into a large mosoleum. The Memorial-advocates held a rally near Ground Zero recently, and almost got arrested. Luckily the Family Groups are a small minority within 9/11 Families.

Personally I hope Libeskind's plan gets built soon, because it seems like the only realistic compromise between those who want tall building and short (the building will be taller than the Twin Towers, but office space would only go up 70 stories) and between Memorial Groups and Businesses/Residents opposed to a mega-memorial. Sadly, the special interest groups on both of these issues can't accept realistic compromise.