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Work Ramps Up at One World Trade Center By Peter Hildebrandt CEG CORRESPONDENT
Pa. Firm Celebrates Rare Equipment Milestone…14
Tiger Dams Assist With Oil Spill Cleanup…104
Teitsworth Holds Giant Auction in N.Y. …134
Table of Contents ........4 Paving Section ......59-71 Off-Road Trucks Section ..............................75-86 Parts Section ....114-115 Auction Section123-144 Business Calendar....140 Advertisers Index ....142
The World Trade Center Site in New York City’s Lower Manhattan has been a place of much construction and sadly, destruction, over the past four decades. When construction started on the first towers in the late 1960s, businesses and area residents were not all pleased, especially since there was both displacement involved and a change in the character of the area due to what some feared as a modern monstrosity in their midst. Architectural critics wondered and worried about the loss of human scale due to the tremendous heights involved with the appearance of these twin, rather boxy structures. For several years one of the towers was the highest building in the world until Chicago’s Sears Tower reached completion. In the wake of the devastating loss of life and destruction of the towers on 9/11, debate, dispute, controversy and high emotions have slowed the progress of development of what instantaneously came to be