The Real Deal New York

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, Mayor Bloomberg complained about the slow pace of construction at the World Trade Center site, and said it is hindered by the bureaucracy surrounding the project. He called for the dismantling of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the state agency overseeing development at the site. Bloomberg expressed his wish to see at least the site’s Sept. 11 memorial completed by 2011, the 10th anniversary of the center’s terrorist attacks. While the Port Authority has promised this completion date, official estimates say it won’t be done until 2013.