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Originally Posted by Dac150
The space that church occupied as shown above is exactly what should be granted this go around.
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In this time, when everyone else demands more for nothing, I guess it shouldn't be a total surprise, even if it is a church. Seeing all of the WTC redevelopment plans, they just got greedy and forgot what they were trying to accomplish, which was simply to get the church rebuilt.
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PA spokesman John Kelly said, "Designs are complete and contracts have been awarded [for the VSC] that assume a church structure on the original site, 155 Cedar St."
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That's one decision the PA got right. At some point, things
have to move forward, you can't endlessly negotiate, especially when the demands seem absurd.
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The archdiocese...upped the ante on other issues that the PA thought had been resolved. Among them, it wanted:
* The church to stand 20 feet taller than the Memorial Museum Pavilion -- a request the PA had previously rejected.
* Unconditional, all-at-once access to $20 million the PA had pledged for construction, rather than on a staged basis subject to completing the land-swap and awarding of job contracts.
* The right to review the VSC plans and to have "approval" over any future changes to the facility -- absurd, given that security is the business of the PA and the NYPD.
* Incredibly, rights to use the surrounding park for its own events and a say in how the park might be otherwise used.
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