Almost five years since it was badly damaged on September 11, Brookfield Properties chairman John Zuccotti reopened the full-block park adjacent to One Liberty Plaza in Lower Manhattan last week and renamed it John Zuccotti Park.[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Almost five years since it badly damaged on September 11, Brookfield Properties Brookfield Properties Corporation TSX: BPO NYSE: BPO is a Toronto-based North American commercial real estate company. Brookfield Asset Management owns 50% of its outstanding common shares. chairman John Zuccotti reopened the full-block park adjacent to One Liberty Plaza One Liberty Plaza is a skyscraper in lower Manhattan, New York, which resides at the location of the former Singer Building (in 1968, the second tallest building to be demolished). One Liberty Plaza is currently owned and operated by Brookfield Properties. in Lower Manhattan last week and renamed it John Zuccotti Park. Downtown's biggest landlord invested $8 million in the renovation of the park, which now features a pink granite ground cover, table seating, 500 in-ground lights and a grove of honey locust trees. It was designed by Cooper Robertson Associates and is laid out on a diagonal from northwest to southeast to accommodate the heavy pedestrain traffic traversing the park. "This is the greatest achievement of my life," said Zuccotti as he cut the ribbon during an official opening ceremony attended by Governor George E. Pataki, Deputy Mayor Daniel L. Doctoroff Daniel L. Doctoroff (born July 11, 1958) is Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding for the City of New York. Under the leadership of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Doctoroff has overseen one of the city’s most dramatic economic resurgences, spearheading the effort , developer Larry Silverstein, former Senator Alfonse D'Amato and former New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Mayor Ed Koch. |
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