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Portions excerpted from N.Y. Times article by Herbert Muchamp The project began by "adopting a strategy developed by Frederick Swartz...who worked on the Westway highway project in the 70's and 80's", which recommended burying a segment of the six-lane state highway. The highway currently divides Battery Park City from the rest of Lower Manhattan. This strategy allowed this exploration to take place which looked to West Street, with the sunken highway, to take the bulk of the World Trade Center (WTC) development. This strategy accomplishes two things: the WTC site is primarily freed of commercial pressures and a long neglected gassh in the cityscape is healed. KoningEizenberg was one of thirteen International Architects involved in developing a scheme for the West Street strip. The building is a proposed Community/Senior Center located on the northern tip of the West Street strip. This proposed community center reflects opinions voiced at recent community-board meetings. It is comprised of a bookstore, childcare center and coffee shop would occupy the ground floor; a senior-citizen center; retirement housing and a public gym would share the upper floors. see the article:
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