re: #171 sliv_the_eli

I haven’t heard that Vantone (which isn’t even going to be the biggest tenant now that Conde Nast appears to have signed for 1 million sf) opposed the name. The Port Authority was never happy with the Freedom Tower moniker, which was a holdover from Gov. George Pataki (R-NY) and his half-baked scheme for Ground Zero. Pataki backed Libeskind’s master plan and referred to the site as the Freedom Tower, but the Port Authority always considered that tower to be 1WTC.