NJIT Alum shows plans for WTC site

The immense design project youre managing will one day fill a huge hole not only in the ground of Lower Manhattan but in the American spirit -- a hole left by the devastating attacks on the old World Trade Center towers. In that sense, is your job rewarding?

My office has a view of the WTC site. Every now and then I look out my office window and remember the Twin Towers. I often wonder what if there was no 9/11: What would the world be like? Where would I be and what would I be working on instead? On the morning of 9/11, I was asked to fill in for someone at a meeting uptown. If not for that meeting, I would have been commuting into the WTC at the time the first plane struck. I have fond memories of the Twin Towers and the entire complex I used to walk through every day. Im excited and optimistic about being an integral part of creating the new skyline. To me, its a great honor to be part of this project.

A project of the scale and complexity that youre working on will take years to complete perhaps as long as 2014. Can you imagine what the new WTC site will be like once completed?

The design and building process is great, but when the pouring of concrete is over and the buildings are up, that will be the exciting part. When people eventually fill the buildings, and the retail stores hum with life and the trains usher millions of people into the city, when you see all that vitality -- that to me will be a wonderful reward.

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Why isn't it up yet? We're moving onto 9 years now and no building yet.

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They should just build one huge one