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 September 5, 2006: The Civic Alliance hosted three evening forums this past June focusing on the rebuilding and recovery of Lower Manhattan. Two reports, on waterfront parks management and retail strategies for Lower Manhattan, are now available:
The East River Waterfront: New Models for Managing New York City Waterfront Public Space
Guide to the Allocation Plan (PDF 1MB)
Creating a Coordinated Retail Strategy for Lower Manhattan
Guide to Allocation Plan : Retail Strategies
(PDF 2 MB)
The Civic Alliance June forums were co-sponsored by::
Community Board 1
Community Board 3
Labor Community Advocacy Network
New York New Visions
Rebuild Chinatown Initiative
World Trade Center Survivors’ Network
This project is supported by a September 11 recovery grant from the American Red Cross Liberty Disaster Relief Fund.
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 Download the Report (PDF 2.3 MB)
World Trade Center Memorial Museum Programming Workshops Summary of Proceedings
November, 2005
November 29, 2005: On September 19 and October 11, 2005, the Civic Alliance, in partnership with the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, sponsored a series of workshops on preliminary programming concepts for the World Trade Center Memorial Museum dedicated to the events of September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993.
Over 100 people attended the workshops, which produced a good deal of thoughtful comment on the preliminary concepts for the museum's programming. Major discussion topics included the proposed "immersive" method of representing the "events of the day," the question of how much context should be provided to the events of September 11 in the museum, the use of audio/visual techniques for presenting content, and the treatment of artifacts that will be presented in the museum.
For a complete record of the workshops' discussions, see the WTC Memorial Museum Programming Workshops Summary of Proceedings, which is now available for download.
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November 1, 2005: Today the Civic Alliance joined the American Planning Association NY Chapter, New York New Visions and the Labor Community Advocacy Network in issuing a statement on the current disarray in the Lower Manhattan planning process. The statement calls on the City of New York to take a greater role in the planning process, and calls on the Port Authority to revisit the WTC program and lease agreement with Larry Silverstein. In light of the string of recent setbacks that have plagued the rebuilding of Ground Zero, the time is right for an honest reassessment of the development program, the financing, and the ownership/ lease arrangements that are misguiding the development process.
Download Civic Alliance Statement
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September 9, 2004: Regional Plan Association today released A Civic Assessment of the Lower Manhattan Planning Process, a report to the Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtown New York that updates the progress of the alliance’s objectives for Lower Manhattan rebuilding. The report applauds public agencies for getting Lower Manhattan back on its feet after 9/11, but concludes that the civic community’s high expectations for the rebuilding process have not yet been met. The full report can be downloaded here. |
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On July 19, 2004, RPA and Urban Agenda sponsored a panel discussion, “Implementing a High Performance Lower Manhattan”, as part of the Civic Alliance’s “Beyond 16 Acres” series. Hosted at the Wall Street Rising Downtown Information Center, the event highlighted the opportunity to pioneer high performance green building design in the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site and to use these techniques throughout Lower Manhattan and New York City. Read the summary and policy brief from the event.
View more information on the Beyond 16 Acres Series.
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