Demolition of Former Bank Building Could Be Delayed

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The demolition of one of the last remaining ruins of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks, the former Deutsche Bank building, may face more delays after state officials canceled a meeting last week in which some expected a revised deconstruction plan to be presented, sources told the New York Sun.

Two months ago, the chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, Avi Schick, said he hoped the stalled effort to demolish the building would resume in November. That didn’t happen, and now the scarred and toxic structure may have won a reprieve at least until the end of the year.

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