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Officials broke ground Tuesday on a replacement for a college building that sat empty for years after a World Trade Center tower collapsed into it on Sept. 11, leaving it damaged beyond repair. Complete Story...
The owners of ground zero say they've stopped paying $300,000-a-day penalties to the developer at the World Trade Center site after more than a year.
Builders of the tallest office tower under construction at ground zero have set a 70-ton piece of steel into place — the largest column installed yet at the building.
A monthslong dispute over who should pay to build office towers at the World Trade Center site is headed to arbitration after a developer called Tuesday for a binding ruling on a standoff that threatens to stall ground zero rebuilding.
World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein has agreed to continue talks to renegotiate a lease at ground zero after meeting with New York Gov. David Paterson.
The owners of ground zero have offered to partially fund the building of a second tower planned by a private developer.
The owner of ground zero and a developer are talking past a deadline set by New York City's mayor to work out their differences.
Top elected officials from New York and New Jersey are meeting with the developer of the World Trade Center site in hopes of resolving an impasse over who will pay for new office towers there.
A meeting aimed at resolving an impasse over who will pay for new office towers at the World Trade Center site resulted only with an agreement by top elected officials from New York and New Jersey to meet next month with the developer.
The mayor and a top state lawmaker on Friday called for a meeting to resolve a power struggle at ground zero, with growing momentum to build fewer skyscrapers than planned in an uncertain economy.
Construction of several ground zero office towers could be put off for decades because of the failing real estate market, the site's owners said Thursday, citing an analysis that projected one skyscraper might not be built and occupied until 35 years after Sept. 11.
The agency that owns ground zero and developer Larry Silverstein went to an arbitrator Wednesday to resolve a multimillion-dollar dispute over a land turnover that has stalled rebuilding.
The owners of the World Trade Center site announced a delay in the completion of a multibillion-dollar transit hub Thursday but pledged to open a nearly finished Sept. 11 memorial by the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
The latest design for the Sept. 11 memorial entrance pavilion has a facade that evokes the World Trade Center's twin towers, and builders still hope the memorial will open by the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
The head of the foundation building the Sept. 11 memorial told supporters Tuesday it's "essential" to open the memorial by the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, disputing a report that the project couldn't be finished on time.
New York Gov. David Paterson says the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site is over budget and behind schedule.
The government agency building a 102-story skyscraper at the World Trade Center site is investigating the discovery of two sets of blueprints for the building that a homeless man says he found in the trash.
The World Trade Center site's owner turned over land where two office towers are planned to a developer, clearing the way for construction to begin soon on more skyscrapers at ground zero.
The foundation isn't even finished, but the agency building the Freedom Tower at ground zero is already looking for someone to operate a restaurant high atop the structure.
One of the world's largest slums, a filthy shantytown in western India, will be razed and replaced with free homes for Mumbai's poor in a multi-billion dollar project by a private developer, officials said Wednesday.
Seventy trucks rolled into ground zero Saturday to pour the concrete base of the signature skyscraper at the new World Trade Center, creating the first visible signs of the long-delayed tower.
Architects presented striking new visions for the World Trade Center site Thursday with designs for three more towers — including a diamond-shaped skyscraper — that would replace the twin towers with some of the city's tallest buildings overlooking a Sept. 11 memorial.
After months of feuding about who should build what at ground zero, construction began Thursday on the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower that will rise on the spot where the World Trade Center stood.
Save Coney Island NEW YORK - STEPHEN Baker will happily lie on a bed of nails at Coney Island - it's a city council vote on Wednesday on the iconic amusement park's future that scares him.
City looks at Visitacion Valley redevelopmentOne of the last forgotten parts of San Francisco that's about to be planned for future developing.
Abandoned Bell Labs could make history againWhen it comes to scientific research, Bell Laboratories' Holmdel campus remains one of the most famous addresses in the world.
Rights group: 800,000 evicted in Nigeria Some 800,000 residents were forcibly evicted from their homes in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, over a four-year period to make way for development in the fast-growing city, a rights group said Thursday.
Court Upholds Injunction Order for South CountyThis is the Start of gentrification in the County of Orange California. Just like the injunctions in Santa Ana. This is the way Orange County purges the society of undesirables, and making a profit out of it.
Book-Cadillac condos: Hot, hot, hot (Detroit Renaissance)Despite southeastern Michigan's sickly housing market, condominium sales have been brisk at the 1924 building, being revived as a hotel, restaurant and residential complex. Already, 61 of 67 condominiums in the Louis Kamper structure are spoken for.
Downtown, Not Just for YuppiesA large new development in Denver--apparently a pretty hot spot for high-quality urban real-estate development--will sport affordable housing, good jobs, and a green spirit.
Biggest Building Site in Manhattan Up for AuctionIt is the largest building site left in Manhattan, 26 acres on the Far West Side, where the Bloomberg administration envisions the equivalent of five Empire State Buildings rising on $1 billion worth of concrete columns over bustling railyards.
Editorial: In Divided New OrleansWhen President Bush spoke to the nation soon after Hurricane Katrina, he was resolute that the city would be rebuilt. "We will do what it takes," he said.
A new face for Denver?From the article:Power brokers and city leaders have spent the past year sifting through ideas about how to shape downtown Denver over the next 20 years.
The City of San Diego is changing. The past is being swept away in a tornado of redevelopment. Downtown has changed a lot in the last thirty years. If trends continue it will change even more. Is the redevelopment of San Diego's downtown worth the cost?
New Orleans brings to mind several images dominated of course by the debauchery-riddled and flamboyant Mardi Gras. But death, destruction, despair, and desolate landscapes are far from your mind.
D.C., MLB reach new lease agreement for NationalsWashington, D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams and Major League Baseball have reached a new lease agreement for the planned Washington Nationals baseball stadium, according to WTOP radio.
ARCADEThe stage of redevelopment in post industrial societies presents interesting opportunities to make choices about the texture of city life. Would Seattle be a more desireable city with a sandy shore in Interbay? "Prime Real Estate" that is zoned industrial.
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