Freedom Tower Name Changed to One World Trade Center

March 30th, 2009

Via: Yahoo / AFP:

The owners of the skyscraper being built at Ground Zero ran into controversy on Friday with the decision to strip the building of its patriotic unofficial name “Freedom Tower.”

“No more freedom,” read the front page of the Daily News, declaring in an editorial that the site’s owner, the New York and New Jersey Port Authority, was “erasing history.”

“Freedom is out of fashion at Ground Zero,” rival tabloid the New York Post said.

The Port Authority announced that the planned 1,776-foot building, now barely above its foundations, will instead be known by the same name as one of the twin towers destroyed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks: One World Trade Center.

Port Authority Chairman Anthony Coscia made the announcement Thursday, saying: “As we market the building we will ensure that the building is presented in the best possible way…. One World Trade Center is its address, it’s the one that we are using.”

The spat coincided with the signing on Thursday of the building’s first commercial tenant — a 21-year deal with China’s Vantone Industrial Company.

The Chinese company will take up the entire 65th and 69th floors and part of the 64th with a business and cultural facility dubbed the China Center.

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One Response to “Freedom Tower Name Changed to One World Trade Center”

  1. remrof says:

    In their defense, “Freedom Tower” is a dumbass name.

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