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Posted by Peter Rosa on Wed Mar 15 13:57:48 2006, in response to Re: It's now official - New York is doomed, posted by Allan on Wed Mar 15 13:33:40 2006. There is a glut of office space in lower Manhattan now and there was one when the Towers were standing. A good portion of the Towers were vacant and the Port Authority could not get tenants (they won't admit it but I can assure you it was so).The official line was that after years of persistently high vacancies, the towers had finally reached near 100% occupancy just before 9/11. Of course it's possible that some space was mostly vacant as the tenants sought to sublet it. These days you are not going to get anyone willing to occupy a floor above, lets say, 50 or 60 so any structure above that would be wasted space. I don't know. Taller skyscrapers are popping up in Asian cities and don't seem to be encountering any such resistance. Unless people think that the United States is a more likely target, a questionable assumption at best. I say they should put up buildings that will be practical. The time to "show-up the terrorists" has past because since things have taken so long just to get this far the impact has been lost. I agree. It may well be that twin 110-story towers are not be the most practical use of space (those aforementioned Asian skyscrapers are motivated as much by ego as by economics). The trouble is, building nothing is far more wasteful. As for showing up the terrorists, we've already shown them that they won. What with the USA Patriot Act, the Department of Homeland Security, all the frantic talk about the Clash of Civilizations and the Caliphate, and most of all the invasion of Iraq, it's abundantly clear that America suffered a complete and humiliating defeat. My LIRR/NYCT blog |
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