re: #202 lawhawk

The technical address was always going to be 1 WTC, because the Post Office and the 911 (the emergency number, not the date) system requires street addresses. However, the building itself was originally going to be called the Freedom Tower (hence the symbolic 1,776 foot height, etc.). If I recall correctly, the project ran into funding difficulties a few years back and required the sale of bonds which, as with most deficit-funded projects in the U.S. these days, were bought in large amount by Chinese lenders who objected to calling the building the “Freedom Tower”. I don’t recall if the politics of the issue ever hit the newspapers, but I have heard this from multiple sources who are intimately involved with the project.