Work to Begin on Freedom's Friends This Week

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The hum of activity at the World Trade Center site has picked up recently, and now, the moment unemployed mail room workers and janitorial staff have been waiting for: WTC developer Larry Silverstein announced yesterday that construction on Towers 3 and 4 will begin this week. That doesn't give the promise much time of coming to fruition, but we'll give ol' Larry the benefit of the doubt. After all, it's not like we're going to see delays on a project as big and as sensitive as the World Trade Center, right? [awkward silence] To refresh the brain factory, Tower 3 is Richard Rogers' ultrapatriotic 71-story criss-cross with the J.Lo butt. Tower 4 is Fumihiko Maki's 64-story plain Jane of the bunch. Both are expecting to top out in 2010, with Norman Foster's blinged out Tower 2 reaching maximum awesomeness a year later. As for Tower 1, known to all as the Freedom Tower, expect steel to be visible in a few months. USA! USA!
· New WTC Towers Finally Under Way [NYP]
· Towers 3 and 4 To Start Rising at Ground Zero [Sun]
· BREAKING WTC Final Designs: The Whole Enchilada [Curbed]

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