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What's Ahead at the WTC

The Port Authority, which owns the WTC site, and developer and leaseholder Silverstein Properties are currently hard at work to rebuild the site. The year 2006 marked the start of heavy foundation construction for the east bathtub, the installation of the Freedom Tower's first steel, and construction of the memorial's footings.

By 2008, Freedom Tower steel will rise above street level on the way to it ultimate height of 1,776 feet. The memorial's underground framework will be erected in the southwest area of the site, on schedule for its 2010 opening followed by the museum's opening in 2011.

Port Authority crews will complete the bathtub in 2008, allowing Silverstein to begin building WTC Towers Three and Four. Construction of WTC Tower Two will follow, with all three towers slated to open by 2012.

Major construction on the WTC Transportation Hub also will begin in 2008, eventually serving as a link from the Trade Center and its half-million-square-foot retail concourse to the MTA's Fulton Street Transit Center to the east, and to the World Financial Center to the west.

The many components of the redeveloped World Trade Center site will open one by one over the course of the next several years. Among them are the memorial, museum and landscaped public plaza; the Freedom Tower and three new east towers; the iconic WTC Transportation Hub; a new performing arts center; the rebuilt St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church on Liberty Street and new Tower Five to rise beside it; and a spacious street-level and underground retail center.

Together these individually distinct elements will reestablish the premier, mixed-use WTC complex, which will commemorate the site's storied history, and symbolize our city's and our nation's endurance in an evermore vibrant Lower Manhattan.