Summit To Address Progress Lag At WTC Site
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Fed up with slow moving construction at the World Trade Center site, officials and project leaders will sit down Thursday to find a way to keep progress moving.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has invited leaders including Governor David Paterson, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Port Authority officials, and Silverstein Properties to Gracie Mansion for a summit on the rebuilding effort.
Deputy Mayor Bob Lieber will run the meeting. Bloomberg says it's another step in a difficult process.
"There's not easy solutions here and I don't think you can expect us to come out of that with a grand solution," Bloomberg said. "It will probably be just sharing information at the very beginning. This is something that Bob Lieber's been working on, as has everybody else. And the bottom line is that the market is no longer there for a lot of the development we want to see get done, nor is the financing."
The summit came out of a call by Silver earlier this month to speed up the construction.