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NEW YORK CITY-Executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Christopher Ward, sees the completion of the World Trade Center as a return of businesses and normality downtown.

By Ryan Clark | Updated on September 08, 2010

NEW YORK CITY-”No matter who they are or where they came from, they are all New Yorkers,” Christopher Ward, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, contemplated the victims of 9/11 at an Association for a Better New York breakfast. The keynote speech was highlighted with decries against “monumentalism” and emotional decision-making, as he walked the room through the arduous process, which eventually resulted in the WTC’s final plan.

The luminaries of New York’s development community commiserated at the ABNY’s gathering held at Cipriani’s on Wall Street. Fresh off the uplifting news that the World Trade Center’s development will be funded and completed in full, Ward thanked Governor Paterson—who was not in attendance—for appointing him to his position, as well as refocusing the WTC negotiations when they were stalled.

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