Freedom Tower name changed to One World Trade Center

[PatriotOne]

Apparently "Freedom" is not popular and One World (Order) is more marketable.

Freedom Tower name changed to One World Trade Center

http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/friday/news/ny-nyfree2712590972mar27,0,6084299.story

The Freedom Tower is out. One World Trade Center is in.

The Port Authority, the agency that owns the building at Ground Zero, said Thursday that the signature skyscraper replacing the Twin Towers destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001, will be more commonly known as One World Trade Center.


The reason for the name swapping? One World Trade Center is more marketable :rolleyes:, said Steve Sigmund, a spokesman for the Port Authority.

"We believe there's been a good response in the marketplace toward it," Sigmund said Thursday.

The 102-story building, under construction at the 16-acre site, was named the Freedom Tower in the first Ground Zero master plan. At the time, officials said the tallest, most symbolic of five planned towers at the site would demonstrate the nation's triumph over terrorism.

In the end, the tower's address, One World Trade Center, is the one that is easier for people to identify with, said Anthony Coscia, Port Authority chairman.

On Wednesday, the agency announced that the first commercial tenant, a Chinese real estate company, has signed a lease for space in the building. The Beijing Vantone Industrial Company has agreed to lease five floors - 64 through 69 - for nearly 21 years.

The office tower is scheduled to be completed in late 2013.

Friday, the Tribute WTC Visitor Center is planning to reach a milestone by welcoming its 1-millionth visitor.

The person who helps the center reach that mark will be presented with a plaque honoring all those who have come there to learn about the 2001 terror attacks against the World Trade Center, said Ben Urizar, a center spokesman.

The tribute center at 120 Liberty St., which opened in 2006, is expected to hit the milestone before 10 a.m., when a news conference is planned.

[robert4rp08]

How is that more marketable? It's 4 words confusingly jumbled together. Whereas freedom tower is two words and catchy. pffffft

[Elwar]

lol, they don't even care about hiding it anymore

[PatriotOne]

How is that more marketable? It's 4 words confusingly jumbled together. Whereas freedom tower is two words and catchy. pffffft

It's not. They just had to come up with some excuse.

[zach]

The truth is usually hidden in the open. ;)

[Monolithic]

1 world trade center was always its official name anyway

who cares, freedom tower just screamed neoconservatism anyway

[Conza88]

http://www.pitodoble.com/imagenes/barad-dur.jpg

[A. Havnes]

1 world trade center was always its official name anyway

who cares, freedom tower just screamed neoconservatism anyway

It is kind of a sudden change...

[The One]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29913195/?GT1=43001


Associated Press
March 27, 2009
NEW YORK - The Freedom Tower is out. One World Trade Center is in.

The agency that owns the site says that the signature 1,776-foot skyscraper replacing the towers destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001, will be known as One World Trade Center.

The building under construction at the site was named the Freedom Tower in the first master plan. Officials at the time said the tallest, most symbolic of five planned towers at the site would demonstrate the country’s triumph over terrorism.

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Chairman Anthony Coscia says the agency refers to the building as One World Trade Center. He says it’s the building’s legal name and “the one that’s easiest for people to identify with.”

“As we market the building, we will ensure that it is presented in the best possible way — and 1 World Trade Center is the address that we’re using,” said Coscia.

“It’s the one that is easiest for people to identify with — and frankly, we’ve gotten a very interested and warm reception to it.”

[ForLiberty-RonPaul]

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The agency that owns the space where the World Trade Center towers stood is freeing itself of the term "freedom" to describe the signature skyscraper replacing the buildings destroyed on September 11, 2001.


The One World Trade Center skyscraper is expected to be completed in late 2013.

The change from Freedom Tower was revealed Thursday at a news conference where the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced the signing of the first commercial lease in the building to a Chinese company. The building is expected to be completed in late 2013.

"We've referred to the primary building planned for the site as One World Trade Center -- its legal name and street address -- for almost two years now, as well as using the name the Freedom Tower," said Stephen Sigmund, a spokesman for the Port Authority, in a statement released to CNN. "Many will always refer to it as the Freedom Tower, but as the building moves out of the planning stage and into full construction and leasing, we believe that going forward it is most practical to market the building as One World Trade Center."

Ten of the building's planned 108 above-ground floors have been built.

"The fact is, more than $3 billion of public money is invested in that building, and, as a public agency, we have the responsibility to make sure it is completed and that we utilize the best strategy to make certain it is fully occupied," Sigmund added.

He noted that the agency lost 84 colleagues in the September 11 attacks.

Mary Fetchet, founding director of Voices of September 11th, a group that commemorates the lives of those killed in the attack, said she was not familiar with the decision made by the Port Authority and was not willing to make a statement.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, on the John Gambling radio show taped Friday morning, said he was not upset by the Port Authority's decision.

"It's up to the Port Authority," he said. "I have no idea what the commercial aspects are, and we can say, 'Oh, we shouldn't worry about that,' but of course you have to, particularly now.

"I would like to see it stay the Freedom Tower, but it's their building, and they don't need me dumping on it. If they could rent the whole thing by changing the name, I guess they're going to do that, and they probably, from a responsible point of view, should. From a patriotic point of view, is it going to make any difference?"

He added, "one of the things is, we call things what we want to call them. So, Avenue of the Americas is a good example, for it's Sixth Avenue to most people. Very few people use Avenue of the Americas. If they name this One World Trade Center, people will still call it the Freedom Tower."

The building was named the Freedom Tower in the first "ground zero" master plan. Officials said at the time that the tallest, most symbolic of five planned towers at the site would demonstrate the country's triumph over terrorism.

Representatives of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Vantone Industrial Co. announced Thursday the signing of a lease that will create the China Center, a 190,810-square-foot business and cultural facility, to be on portions of the 64th floor and the entire 65th through 69th floors of One World Trade Center.

Hailing it as a great day for the Port Authority and its partners in the China center, Port Authority Executive Director Chris Ward added, "this is the first step in a long journey as downtown is finally rebuilt."

The lease is for 20 years and nine months, beginning when the building is completed, with rents starting at $80 per square foot and escalating afterward. The China Center also will have the right to lease up to two additional contiguous floors under the same terms, an option that expires at the end of 2009.

The Port Authority also has commitments for more than a million square feet of leased office space in One World Trade Center from the U.S. General Services Administration and the New York State Office of General Services. Leases for these two public agencies are being finalized. These commitments, coupled with the China Center lease, represent nearly 50 percent of the office space in the building.

The China Center at One World Trade Center is expected to represent the elite of China's business and cultural communities and serve as a hub for Chinese firms developing United States operations, as well as for U.S. companies that wish to conduct business in China or expand operations.

One World Trade Center will include 2.6 million gross square feet of office space on 70 office floors, a public lobby with a 50-foot-high ceiling, an observation deck 1,265 feet above ground, a skyline restaurant, a wide array of shopping and parking.

The building itself will be 1,368 feet tall, and a spire at the top will bring the total height to 1,776 feet.

Beijing Vantone Industrial is one of the first private corporations established in China. Today, the company is one of China's largest private real estate investment companies with 13 subsidiaries, including one publicly traded company, Beijing Vantone Real Estate Co.

From Chris Kokenes
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/27/no.freedom.tower/index.html?eref=ib_us

[He Who Pawns]

Personally, I liked this design...

http://i42.tinypic.com/2eow8jo.jpg

[constitutional]

I think it's better than Freedom Tower. I don't want a symbol of failure and shame in the middle of one of the most populated city. They can remove "one" from it and it would be even better. It would send a message to terrorists: You can't break us! We will rise again on our feet!

Calling it "Freedom Tower" or "One Word Trade Center" just shows terrorist won. They have affected our lives a lot (which they have with this meaningless war and rights taken way). One way to win against "jihadism" is to show them that their actions don't matter. Too bad terrorists attack us with a reason... and not just "kill 'em all" attitude.

[dannno]

One World Trade Center


One World Government

[jack555]

One World Trade Center


One World Government


Were we the only 2 to get that...

[RideTheDirt]

Were we the only 2 to get that...

i know i did:eek:

[pikerz]

Is Silverman pretty much rubbing in our faces the fact that he has sold out to the NWO?

[idiom]

Sorry, how many Worlds are you trading between?

[nobody's_hero]

Sorry, how many Worlds are you trading between?

Well, there's the real world, and then there's the other world that our government tries to make work. :D

[sarahgop]

what a crock. why not call it "TERRORISM TOWER". I wish it had just been left as an empty lot instead of it being a symbol for totalitarian one world govt.

[Kludge]

I think it's a witty play on words and an intelligent way to destroy terrorists' credibility.


How ironic that it will be built in the United States.

[Dorfsmith]

Were we the only 2 to get that...

I thought the exact same thing when I heard it on the news yesterday.

[Matt Collins]

I was in my St Louis hotel room last night getting dressed for meeting Ron and the Judge and Tom Woods and I had CNN on (ugh). Lou Dobbs was discussing this and he said the first and only tenant of this facility thus far is a trading company for communist China. He implied that is why it was changed from "Freedom Tower" to "One World Tower"

[Carole]

Disgusting!!!

Freedom Tower on WTC site "renamed" to One World Trade Center.

They have leased some of it to a Chinese Real Estate Company.

Freedom to Name That Tower
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/opinion/28sat3.html?_r=1

Now does One World Trade Center *its address) read as "One...World Trade Center" or maybe "One-World" Trade Center?

One of the pillars or supporting beams of steel has Freedom Tower engraved into it, but will it ever be seen?

Sad.:(

[Rangeley]

One of the old towers had that exact name also, so its nothing new. I dont understand why they aren't naming it the Freedom Tower anymore.

[ForLiberty-RonPaul]

bump

[GunnyFreedom]

Holy crap, I predicted this years ago... :eek:

[Bruno]

They forgot to put quotes around the title. It should read

"One World" trade center

[Cowlesy]

merged 3 dup threads

[GunnyFreedom]

One World Currency -> IMF

[TurtleBurger]

"Freedom Tower" perpetuates the myth that "they attacked us because they hate our freedom". I'm glad they changed it.

[AMBurns]

Freedom Tower was always such a shit name.

"You know what terrorists? We're free and you aren't? Here's a Freedom Tower which shows you just how free we are. Everyday it will remind us of the time that you got the better of us, knocked down are buildings, sent out economy into a free fall and got our natural rights taken away after our cowardly "leaders" passed unconstitutional laws."

You know what the biggest FU to the guys who brought them down?

http://www.davelgil.com/World-Trade-Center-Before8.jpg

To rebuild them just as they were.

[Galileo Galilei]

How about the Billions Boondoggled Building?

[Golding]

Whatever they call it, it still has yet to be built and is a long ways away. I thought Freedom Tower was a cheesy name, reminding me of when there was an anti-French sentiment and people started referring to "Freedom Fries". The collapse of the towers and the incidents that followed had nothing to do with freedom anyway. 1 World Trade Center is easy to interpret as a One World Government (I laughed that there was actually someone in this thread who believed he was the only one who got it), but it's what the towers always were called. Instead of overcompensating and going "This is the FREEDOM TOWER OF PATRIOTIC JUSTICE", I think a more solemn tribute is to try to bring things back closely to what they were.

[BlackTerrel]

How is that more marketable? It's 4 words confusingly jumbled together. Whereas freedom tower is two words and catchy. pffffft

Calling yourself Freedom Tower is basically putting a big target on your back and saying "nah nah terrorists come get us". I'm sure a lot of people would be hesitant to work there for that reason.

[cheapseats]

SKYSCRAPER OF LIBERTY
1 April 2009

Among the architectural and engineering wonders of the world, only one is quintessentially American.

Castles, bridges, dams, arches, cathedrals, temples, post offices, museums, senates, coliseums, towers, obelisks, theaters, opera houses, hotels, pyramids, even banks . . . we invented none of ‘em.

But the SKYSCRAPER has American ingenuity written ALL over it. We NAILED the concepts of ambition, efficiency, innovation and style with the Skyscraper. An unabashedly phallic symbol, it’s reach-for-the-stars gusto leaves nothing to chance and everything to the imagination.

Not that anyone asked, but I don’t like the name One World Trade Center. It’s anemic and obsequious.

I like Skyscraper of Liberty. It makes for a nice set.

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