9/11 anniversary: Twin towers memorial to be unveiled

AN eight-acre memorial to the victims will be officially unveiled at the site of the attacks tomorrow.
By The Newsroom
Published 10th Sep 2011, 07:00 BST

It will feature waterfalls pouring into pools which occupy the sites of the twin towers, with a plaza surrounded by 225 oak trees.

Around it, the new World Trade Center complex is being built, with 3,500 construction workers on the site every day. Its first buildings will be two office skyscrapers, a train station and a museum.

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One of the towers is already 80 storeys high, and the second 40 storeys. The first office skyscraper to open will be the 64-storey Tower 4 in 2013. The tower will house city and Port Authority workers, along with the police department’s World Trade Center Command of more than 650 officers.

Next to open in 2014 will be One World Trade Center, set to rise a symbolic 1,776 feet – higher that the Twin Towers – including its spire, where the publishing giant Conde Nast has already signed up for more than a million square feet of office space, making it the biggest tenant.