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グラウンド・ゼロ再開発プロジェクト、完工1年以上遅れに
2008年07月01日 20:14 発信地:ニューヨーク/米国
ニューヨーク（New York）の世界貿易センター（World Trade Center）跡地グラウンド・ゼロ（Ground Zero、2008年4月20日撮影）。(c)AFP/Getty Images/Chris Hondros
【7月1日 AFP】2001年9月11日の米国同時多発テロにより破壊された世界貿易センタービル（World Trade Center）跡地グラウンド・ゼロ（Ground Zero）の再開発プロジェクトの完工が、予定より1年遅れることがわかった。ニューヨーク（New York）市当局関係者が1日、明らかにした。
ランドマークとなるフリーダムタワー（Liberty Tower、自由の塔）をはじめとする近代的高層ビル群と、複数の地下鉄を結ぶトランジットセンター、美術館の建設を含む再開発プロジェクトについて、予定地を所有するニューヨーク・ニュージャージー港湾管理委員会（Port Authority of New York and New Jersey、PANYNJ）のクリス・ウォード（Chris Ward）氏は、「スケジュールの大幅な遅れと費用の超過」が発生していると語った。
またウォード氏は新たな完工予定日について、主だった問題点が未解決のまま完工予定日を設定するのは「非現実」だとして、現時点では決まっていないことも明らかにした。
同プロジェクトには9つの州機関、建設会社および請負会社101社、デザイナー・建築家22人がかかわり、紆余曲折を経て2006年4月にようやく着工。当初は予算150億ドル（約1兆5800億円）を投じ、テロ発生から10年目の節目となる2011年に完工予定とされていた。
フリーダムタワーは高さ541メートル、24万1548平方メートルのオフィススペースを誇る高層ビル。ほかにも3つの高層複合ビルが建設され、その合計面積は57万5999平方メートルとなる。
一部の不動産専門家の間では、テロの生々しい記憶が残る場所にできた新しいビルで働きたがる人は少ないはずで、広大なオフィススペースも多くの空きが出るのではないかと言われている。(c)AFP/Luis Torres de la LLosa
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AFP通信の英文記事はこちら ⇒
http://beta.ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080701/tls-us-attacks-rebuild-aeafa1b.html
Major delay looms for World Trade Center rebuilding
AFP - Tuesday, July 1NEW YORK (AFP) - - Construction of skyscrapers and an underground transport hub to replace the World Trade Center towers destroyed in the September 11 terror attacks will be delayed for years and cost far more than planned, New York officials said Monday.
The schedule and cost of the ambitious project, including a landmark Liberty Tower, other ultramodern skyscrapers and a museum, "face significant delays and cost overruns," said Chris Ward, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the site land.
"While significant progress has been made, the schedule and cost estimates of the rebuilding effort that have been communicated to the public are not realistic," he added in a briefing about the setbacks.
A new target completion date was not released, Ward said, as setting a fresh forecast before key issues were resolved "would only create a new set of commitments and expectations that are unrealistic."
Earlier Monday The Wall Street Journal reported the project will be delayed from one to three years and run three billion dollars over its 15-billion-dollar budget.
"Anyone giving you dates and budgets today would have to have a crystal ball," Port Authority spokesman Stephen Sigmund told the paper, calling its figures overly pessimistic.
The delays mean the so-called "ground zero" project will not be completed by 2011, the symbolic date of the 10th anniversary of the terror strikes on New York, Washington and Pennsylvania claimed by Al-Qaeda.
Ward pointed to 15 "fundamental issues" critical to the project and its construction which had yet to be resolved, and said there needed to be a "more efficient, centralized decision-making structure" to make final decisions on the project.
Officials said work on the site involves 19 state agencies, 101 different construction companies or subcontractors, and 33 different designers, architects and builders.
New York Governor David Paterson said he wanted to focus less on what has gone wrong in the process and more on providing an adequate memorial to honor those who died in the attacks.
"I am not interested in assigning blame. Instead, I am interested in fixing the problem so we can move forward," Paterson said.
"I believe that the victims' families deserve a memorial that is equal to the sacrifice and heroism displayed on that day and I believe that the City of New York deserves a reinvigorated site that secures our position as the economic capital of the world."
The developer of the World Trade Center site has dismissed suggestions that people would be scared to occupy the skyscrapers that will replace the fallen twin towers.
Envisaged as a demonstration of New York's unity and resilience, the reconstruction of the site where the trade center's twin towers were destroyed on September 11, 2001, became a byword for discord and disorder.
After a multitude of delays caused by the clash of multiple vested interests, construction of the design's centerpiece skyscraper -- the 1,776 foot (541-meter) Freedom Tower -- finally began in April 2006.
As well as the Freedom Tower, which will contain 241,548 square meters (2.6 million square feet) of office space, Silverstein Properties will build three other high-rise buildings at the site with a combined office space of 575,999 square meters (6.2 million square feet).
Some real estate experts have predicted the space will be hard to fill, with memories of the 9/11 attack making too many people reluctant to work in skyscrapers on the same site.
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