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Twelve years after the 9/11 attacks, the first building to be completed on the 16-acre site - 4 World Trade Center - offers more evidence that lower Manhattan is back, officials and community leaders said yesterday.
"This is the greatest comeback story in history," said its developer, Larry Silverstein, who built the 72-story building that will have 2.3 million square feet of light-filled high-tech office space.
"At this moment there is enormous pride in the creation of this amazing building. ... The World Trade Center is living up to the ideals we set forth after 9/11 when so many doubted its future. This project is by New Yorkers for New Yorkers."
The ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday offered a neighborhood block party atmosphere with a...