Please join WX for a discussion on the historic rebuilding of the World Trade Center site after 9/11 featuring Lynne B. Sagalyn, Author of Power at Ground Zero: Politics, Money, and The Remaking of Lower Manhattan and Robert C. Lieber, former Deputy Mayor for Economic Development under the Bloomberg administration. The speakers will address the planning challenges, complex politics and economic scope of the supercharged reconstruction effort. Based on more than a decade of research, over 150 interviews and analysis of hundreds of documents, Power at Ground Zero offers the definitive account of how public officials and private real estate interests achieved the twin mandates of remembrance and rebuilding on these symbolic sixteen acres.
Speakers:
Lynne B. Sagalyn, Author of Power at Ground Zero: Politics, Money and The Remaking of Lower Manhattan
Bob C. Lieber, Executive Managing Director, C-III Capital Partners LLC