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[Final-Fan]

Kasz216 said:

Final-Fan said:

A few minutes on Google failed to turn up any specific locations the governor might have offered, except for this bit of speculation: 
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/08/22/2010-08-22_patersonplan_for_site_not_grounded_in_reality.html

Instead of two blocks away, it would be ... five blocks away.  Better?  And if we go much further than that, that would probably disrupt the purpose of building it in the first place, as it was planned for that community. 

Or was Kasz talking about a completely different offer? 

That's likely it.  I'd heard there were offers of land 5-6 blocks away from ground zero.

5 blocks away would much be better.  Mainly because it wouldn't be visible from ground zero then... it's a 13-15 story building.  The main problem is, it's a giant towering trigger to people with PTSD and it's within view to anyone paying their respects... and that's a lot of people.  The whole thing would within view of the subway exit people would use to get there as it is.

From that location neither problem would exist. 

I had heard that it (the 2-block-away site) would NOT be literally visible from "ground zero". 

As for the offer, you will note that the 5-block-away site was NOT a solid offer by the governor, rather speculation as to what he could possibly hope to offer given a nonspecific suggestion of using property available to the state.  The site in question is owned by the MTA which they could believably be persuaded to part with. 

But yeah, if the governor would actually walk up and say "I can absolutely make this happen, just move a few blocks" then they should take it.  But it sounded more like "Hey I have an idea, maybe I can move you, please wait while government takes god knows how long to put it into action, assuming we actually do".  I'm not surprised that the current plan is moving forward if the latter is closer to the truth.