Today's wacky World Trade Center plan adjustment is actually the resuscitation of an old idea: the Post reports that the Port Authority would like to turn the site of the under-deconstruction Deutsche Bank building into a luxury hotel/condo tower. "Tower 5" was supposed to be a 42-story office building built by JPMorgan Chase (right), the so-called "Tower of Darkness" because of its bulging trading floors (a design element that was later dropped), but now that's all gone away. Nothing can get built until the Deutsche Bank building comes down, of course, so the Port Authority probably has another 200 years or so to sort this out. [NYPost; previously]
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