Is he willing to have that school or ‘residential’ building 110 stories high? If not then he should shut up and let Silverstein (the lease holder of the property) rebuild the office towers as has been designed and planned. What’s wrong with Mikey, anyway? We finally get pondscum Soros and his IFC Hate-America-First “museum” kicked off the site, and now there’s fight about whether or not to rebuild office buildings? Criminy…
From the NY Daily News via the AP:
Mayor Michael Bloomberg blasted the developer of the World Trade Center site in comments to a newspaper editorial board, saying space at ground zero might be better used for schools and residential buildings than office towers…
Bloomberg’s predecessor, Rudolph Giuliani, and Gov. George E. Pataki created the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. in 2002 to oversee rebuilding of ground zero, but Pataki has taken greater leadership of the redevelopment, which also includes plans for a memorial, and retail and cultural space.
Bloomberg has said he wants a greater role in the redevelopment of the 16-acre site. He told the Daily News that schools and residential buildings might be a better use of some of the space than office towers.
At a campaign stop Sunday at Mount Pisgah Baptist Church in Brooklyn, Bloomberg questioned the need for the 10 million square feet of office space Silverstein wants to build to replace what was destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack.
