It has been a long slog of 13 years to rebuild the World Trade Center after that fateful day of horror on 9-11-01. Truth be told, it should have taken a year or less to rebuild the towers but politics, political correctness and dark money interfered.
Yet without much fanfare, Conde Naste moves in today as the first official tenant. After 40,000 tons of steel and much debate that included building a mosque in the same area, The World Trade Center once again assumes her place in the New York skyline and telegraphs a message to the enemies of America.
Go here to see a less than 30 second video of the reconstruction.
Just a few months ago, the 9-11 Memorial museum opened to the public at ‘ground zero’.
A photo essay is here.
By Keiko Morris – Wall Street Journal
Louis Medina, a security guard at One World Trade Center, couldn’t control his emotions as he thought about Monday, the first day at work for the skyscraper’s first group of office workers, 175 employees of publishing giant Condé Nast.
“Even 10 years from now, my son will ask me or my daughter will ask me, and I will be like, ‘I was there when the building opened [and] my job was to protect the building,’ ” said Mr. Medina, before succumbing to tears. “A lot of people don’t get a chance to be a part of history even if it is a small part.”
Mr. Medina’s passion represents just one of the layers of meaning surrounding the reintroduction of daily office life on the site where more than 2,700 people lost their lives in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
For many, Monday’s milestone is largely economic, evidence of the continuing reinvigoration of lower Manhattan. And for Condé Nast, the move from Times Square to One World Trade Center symbolizes a corporate pivot toward the digital future for the company that produces the New Yorker, Vogue and Vanity Fair.
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