NEW YORK - Construction costs for the World Trade Center memorial have risen to an estimated $1 billion — twice as much as officials had planned to spend.
Last year, rebuilding officials said it would cost $490 million to build the memorial and an adjacent museum, which is slated to take up eight acres of the 16-acre site when it opens in 2009. Preliminary site work began in March.
Contractors this week issued a revised estimate of $1 billion, a person familiar with the figures told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the number had not yet been publicly announced.
Continued...Mayor Bloomberg says anything more than $500 million is unacceptable?
Excuse me?
There is no reason whatsoever to be spending this amount of the taxpayers money on a memorial. It is absolutely ridiculous. I can see erecting a statue or placing a plaque(s) on a small portion of the 'hallowed ground' - yes my eyes roll when I hear that term - but what they are proposing is garish, tacky, obscenely overpriced and just plain self indulgent.
And as an aside - the 911 Families commission needs to register as a political organization. I'm sick and tired of them coopting the memory of the dead for their own purposes. People die in obscurity in this country every day and their death is no less meaningful than those who perished on 9-11.
End of rant...
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