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Tower 7 Plans Unveiled
Wednesday, November 20, 2002
(1:23 PM ET)
By Amanda Barrett
Staff Writer

Officials look at a model of plans for the 7 World Trade Center site during a news conference on Wednesday.
Image Credit: Ed Bailey -- AP.

“We’re not just going to recreate what existed on Sept. 11, 2001, we’re going to move beyond,” he said. “... This building, 7 World Trade Center is an important symbol but more than that, it is a concrete step” toward rebuilding the area, he said.

In a big step toward rebuilding Ground Zero, developer Larry Silverstein and a host of officials today unveiled plans to construct a taller 7 World Trade Center building.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Silverstein’s decision to rebuild 7 World Trade shows that, “We will not be intimidated by the terrorists. We are just not going to let them destroy our way of life.”

The 52-story lower Manhattan office tower will be 750 feet tall and cast a smaller footprint in order to offer great views of the surrounding area, said architect David Childs of Skidmore Owings and Merrill.

It will also be narrower than its 47-story predecessor so Greenwich Street can be restored as a through street.
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