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From what I understand isn't there just a whole slough of politics standing in the way of rebuilding? I seem to recall hearing a lot about that a few years ago...but yeah it is odd that seemingly nothing has been done yet, even Government doesn't usually run this slowly.
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It's not the government, it's the landowner.
He hired an architect to create the new tower (Freedom Tower), unfortunately this architect has 0 experience in buildings over 4 stories. Other architects reviewed the plans, and it would have immediately collapsed.
So the architect re-planned it, other architects reviewed it, and it would have been unusable with the elevator configuration.
So the architect re-planned it, other architects reviewed it, and again it would have immediately collapsed.
That's the last I heard about it... and this was a good 6 years ago.