April 28, 2014
By Marc Bussanich
While Gary LaBarbera, president of the Building & Construction Trades Council, rallied and led tradesmen outside the Port Authority’s NY offices last week to call on the Port to spend $1.2 billion in public funds to rebuild the remaining tower at the World Trade Center site, Port commish Ken Lipper said wait, let the developer, Larry Silverstein, get the money from the capital markets as his peers have done to rebuild the tower. But Janno Lieber, president of World Trade Center Properties, said the money the Port would receive by renting and leasing the Tower would provide the Port with the necessary funds to fund future urgent transportation projects. WATCH VIDEO of LIPPER and LIEBER
