Transit lines are life blood

Greening the Empire State: Exploring New York's Energy Options

Transit Lines are Life Blood
Gotham Gazette
Gotham Gazette Web
Baruch School of Public Affairs
Recent Posts
NYC Blogs
Click here for a list of NYC blogs
Newsfeeds
Search This Blog
Contribute
Spot a published piece that would fit this blog? Let us know about it, at blog@gothamgazette.com

email this article

most emailed articles


Malling Downtown
November 23rd, 2005

Reviews of the Port Authority’s possible plans for retail development near the World Trade Center site are trickling in, and they are not favorable.

“One of the more striking features of the retail component is its mallness, which isn’t quite suburban though it is certainly second-rate Californian,” writes theboxtank, a blog about “big-box urbanism.” Theboxtank seems particularly dismayed about the Cortland Street atrium, which “looks as though it will be a pleasant perch from which to look out on the tourists in the memorial, without ever having to leave the comforts of shopping.

“Does the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey really want to put a retail shopping center on the Church Street side of the World Trade Center memorial site?” asks Howard Sherman in his Nuggets blog. Sherman wonders how many people will want to “Spend some time taking in one of the greatest disasters in U.S. history and then buy a snow globe?”

Others are more dismayed at what the development would apparently replace. “According to the rendering , Century 21 …has simply ceased to exist! All that is left in its place is a patch of brown — one might almost say scorched — earth,” laments
Meme First
. And 911memorials.org notes that the “Freedom Center and Performing Arts Center are also missing” from the authority’s drawings.

By Gail Robinson on November 23, 2005, 2:17 pm
In category: Gotham City, Land Use
Recommend this entry via: stumble upon | digg | del.icio.us |

One Response to “Malling Downtown”

  1. Howard Says:
    November 28th, 2005 at 9:33 am

    Thanks for the link.

Leave a Reply