re: #884 ClaudeMonet

…this particular building was available two blocks away. When you can get a good piece of suitable real estate relatively cheaply, you do it.

Lower Manhattan real estate in a building that hasn’t been remodeled since it happened to catch a certain chunk of fuselage? It’s a steal!

The location is perfect both in terms of serving the Manhattan community and in international prestige. Hopefully the Park51 project will be just the first of a greater movement in promoting a more Western form of Islam both there and elsewhere