1987: New Yorker: How the future of Ground Zero is being resolved.
In 1987, a developer, Larry Silverstein, built a huge slab of a building, 7 World Trade Center, which created a wall between the northern section of Greenwich Street and the rest of the Trade Center complex.
1998: New York Times. Deal Is Signed To Take Over Trade Center
It took New York and New Jersey officials several years even to agree on the decision to put the complex into private hands in 1998, when the Port Authority's advisers estimated that a sale might bring $1.5 billion.
Around 2000? Bollyn. (I have a hard time finding information on the commissions under New York Governor George Pataki to privatize the World Trade Center owned by the Port Authority).
Ronald Lauder headed the two commissions under Governor George Pataki that pushed for the privatization of the World Trade Center: the New York State Commission of Privatization and the New York State Research Council on Privatization. Lauder was the driving force behind the effort to privatize the World Trade Center, which resulted in Larry Silverstein, a fellow Zionist, getting the 99-year lease of the Twin Towers in July 2001.
April 2000. Mint Press News: 9/11: LARRY SILVERSTEIN DESIGNED NEW WTC-7 ONE YEAR BEFORE ATTACKS
Back in April 2000, one year and five months before the attacks, “Lucky Larry” held a meeting to discuss plans to replace building 7 in 2002. As reported by Veterans Today:
“We got the designs. And the first design meeting was in April of 2000. And construction began shortly thereafter, in 2002.”
Watch Larry Silverstein – New WTC7 designed in 2000:
One slight problem: If he hadn’t been planning the illegal, un-permitted, homicidal demolitions of WTC-7 and the entire World Trade Center complex that took place on September 11th, 2001, there would have been no point to any such design meeting back in April, 2000 … and no opportunity for beginning construction of a new WTC-7 in 2002.
Link to Video that works: https://rumble.com/v56zbml-larry-silverstein-says-he-received-new-wtc-building-7-design-plans-in-april.html
February 23, 2001. New York Post: VORNADO WINS WTC LEASE WITH $3.25B BID. Vornado originally won the bid for the World Trade Center.
In a decision that will affect Lower Manhattan for a century, the Port Authority yesterday selected Vornado, the city’s biggest commercial landlord, to buy a long-term lease on most of the World Trade Center. Boston Properties/Brookfield and Silverstein Properties/Westfield America – each came in at just over $3 billion.
March 17, 2001. Hareetz: Up in Smoke, November 21, 2001.
The Port Authority had planned to announce last Wednesday that it was selling the lease for the World Trade Center for $3.25 billion to Vornado Realty Trust, a deal that would have been the largest involving a single piece of real estate. Instead, the negotiations have turned into a long-running ordeal.
After several aborted efforts to issue a statement announcing the sale, Lewis M. Eisenberg, the chairman of the Port Authority, imposed a news blackout. Now the outcome of the sale is far from certain, as is exactly who will take over the vast office complex.
It was clear on Wednesday morning that Vornado was suddenly out, either because the company tried to change the terms of the deal at the last minute or because there was a simple misunderstanding. The withdrawal cleared the way for the No. 2 bidder, Silverstein Properties, to re-enter the picture. Steven Roth, the chairman of Vornado, declined to discuss the World Trade Center yesterday.
April 27, 2001. New York Times. Deal Is Signed To Take Over Trade Center
The completion of the deal is the end of an effort begun three years ago by Gov. George E. Pataki of New York and Christie Whitman, then the governor of New Jersey, to privatize the huge 10.6-million-square-foot office complex. It was built 30 years ago by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to stimulate development in Lower Manhattan. The governors pledged to use the proceeds from the transaction for new transportation projects.
A group led by Larry A. Silverstein, a developer, and Westfield America Inc., an owner of shopping centers, signed a 99-year lease yesterday after working nearly 24 hours straight on the agreement. Still, the Port Authority delayed the start of its board meeting yesterday afternoon until the developer delivered a $100 million letter of credit, the first installment on a $616 million down payment. The group will then make annual rent payments to the Port Authority, manage and lease the complex and spend $200 million on capital improvements.
June 2001. CNN: Verdict in 9/11 insurance battle
Silverstein contended that the two jetliners crashing into the twin towers about 15 minutes apart should be considered two separate events, which would allow him to collect the maximum from the insurers for each tower, as much as $7 billion.
After leasing the complex, Silverstein negotiated with 24 insurance companies for a maximum coverage of $3.55 billion per catastrophic occurrence. However, the agreements had not been finalized before 9/11.
The trial's central issue was whether a document drafted by Silverstein's insurance broker in June 2001 was in effect at the time of the attacks.
After a three-month trial, jurors decided Thursday that the attacks should be considered a single event for nine insurance companies, which together are responsible for at least $1 billion in coverage.
Silverstein has been chosen to develop Freedom Tower, a 2 million-square-foot, 1,776-foot-tall skyscraper, and plans as many as four other office buildings on the site. He is already building a 52-story office tower where World Trade Center 7 stood until it collapsed in the wake of the attacks.
July 24, 2001: Hareetz: Up in Smoke, November 21, 2001.
“Six weeks before the events of September 11, Silverstein leased the Twin Towers and buildings No. 4 and 5 of the WTC complex for 99 years from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He agreed to pay $3.2 billion for the properties. Becoming the owner of them, on July 24, was the high point of his career and marked the end of a grueling quest.”
July 24, 2001. New Yorker: How the future of Ground Zero is being resolved.
Six weeks before the World Trade Center towers were destroyed, the Port Authority completed the process of leasing them for ninety-nine years to Larry Silverstein, the developer who had built 7 World Trade Center. Simultaneously, the retail space underneath the complex was leased to Westfield America, the U.S. division of an Australian company that is one of the world's largest operators of shopping malls. Silverstein and Westfield were given the right to rebuild the structures if they were destroyed, and Westfield has the right to expand the amount of retail space by thirty per cent.
July 24, 2001. Anti-Defamation League: Unraveling Anti-Semitic 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
It was only a few weeks before the 9/11 attacks, in July 2001, that Larry Silverstein, a real estate developer who already owned 7 World Trade Center, signed a 99-year lease on the World Trade Center complex. Silverstein Properties, his company, partnered with Westfield America to oversee the WTC complex, as well as the shopping concourse underneath the complex. This was the first time that the WTC had changed hands since the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PA) created the complex in the early 1970s.
After the WTC attack, far-right publications were quick to see something sinister in this business deal. The Gospel News Alert, a conspiracy-oriented publication, claimed that Silverstein wanted the building destroyed so that he could collect millions in insurance money. The American Free Press reported that Frank Lowy, described as "an Israeli businessman from Australia" in charge of Westfield America, had insured the shopping concourse against terrorist attacks and now stood to gain a tremendous amount of insurance money because of the attacks. The article implied that the attack on the WTC resulted in a huge profit for Lowy since he was "fully insured for both capital and loss of income." Like any commercial business owners, Lowy and Silverstein had indeed insured their World Trade Center property…
September 11, 2001: Transcript of Donald Trump's phone call to a news channel on September 11, 2001.
Donald Trump: “Well Alan as you know, we’ve always had very strong security but there’s very little you can do about planes crashing into a building. I mean you look at Larry Silverstein, is a very terrific owner in New York and a very good friend of mine who I just called. I was very worried about him, because I assume maybe he was in the building. He took possession of the building one week ago. As you know he just bought the World Trade Center. And he was in his office, and he was getting ready to move into the World Trade Center over the next two weeks so, and I just spoke to him, there’s nothing you can do when people are gonna be bombing planes at your building.”
September 11, 2001: Busy.org, link no longer functions.
Something that people might not be as aware of however, is the fact that Mr. Silverstein had a meeting scheduled on the morning of 9/11, that was to be held on the 88th floor of the North Tower (WTC1), just below the impact point of where the first plane is said to of struck the tower that morning. The meeting which was scheduled to start at 8am, was to involve Mr. Silverstein and a small group of his employees, which were going to be discussing, of all things, "what to do in the event of a terrorist attack."
September 11, 2001: Times of Israel: Larry Silverstein: I decided to rebuild World Trade Center just 2 days post-9/11, September 1, 2021.
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks, American businessman Larry Silverstein recounted to an Israeli television network how he had purchased the Twin Towers in New York just seven weeks before they came down, how he himself survived by a “miracle,” and how he announced his intention to rebuild the World Trade Center just two days later.
Silverstein, 90, told Channel 13 news in an interview aired Tuesday that he had decided to purchase the World Trade Center buildings in Lower Manhattan in July 2001 because “I saw it as a vast opportunity, and that’s why we paid 3.2 billion dollars to acquire it.”
The buildings, which Silverstein leased for 99 years, collapsed just seven weeks later when Islamist terrorists crashed planes into each of the Twin Towers, killing 2,606 people.
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks, American businessman Larry Silverstein recounted to an Israeli television network how he had purchased the Twin Towers in New York just seven weeks before they came down, how he himself survived by a “miracle,” and how he announced his intention to rebuild the World Trade Center just two days later.
Silverstein, 90, told Channel 13 news in an interview aired Tuesday that he had decided to purchase the World Trade Center buildings in Lower Manhattan in July 2001 because “I saw it as a vast opportunity, and that’s why we paid 3.2 billion dollars to acquire it.”
The buildings, which Silverstein leased for 99 years, collapsed just seven weeks later when Islamist terrorists crashed planes into each of the Twin Towers, killing 2,606 people.
“The day was a terrible day for the world,” Silverstein said. “Miraculously, I’m alive. I’m here, which is a miracle.”
“So that morning, I was dressing to get downtown to meet with one of the tenants, and my wife said: ‘You can’t go.’ And I said: ‘Why? I have an appointment downtown.’ She said: ‘Because I made an appointment for you with a dermatologist, and that’s something you canceled last month and you cannot cancel again.’
“I remember the governor, [then-New York] Governor [George] Pataki, calling me, I think two days after 9/11, asking me what I think we oughta do, should we rebuild,” Silverstein recounted. “And I said, Governor, I think we must. I really think it’s absolutely obligatory. We’ve gotta put this back as quickly as we possibly can.
“It was, I think, two weeks after 9/11 that our first design meeting was [held],” he added. “I brought everyone back for the redesign of this building, Seven World Trade Center, because this was the last building to come down on 9/11, and we decided it was the first building that was gonna go back up after 9/11.”
Shortly After 9/11: Hareetz: Up in Smoke, November 21, 2001.
Shortly after the events of September 11, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called Larry Silverstein, a Jewish real estate magnate in New York, the owner of the World Trade Center's 110-story Twin Towers and a close friend, to ask how he was. Since then they have spoken a few more times. Two former prime ministers - Benjamin Netanyahu, who this week called Silverstein a "friend," and Ehud Barak, whom Silverstein in the past offered a job as his representative in Israel - also called soon after the disaster. Yaakov Terner, the mayor of Be'er Sheva, sent a letter of condolence.
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Disgusting how he made billions on the death of Americans, and got away to do it again.