I have waivered on this one myself. After it first happened and when initial discussions took place, I felt that the buildings should be re-built and THAT would serve as the memorial.    However, after visiting the site and realizing how many bodies were not found my view changed.

It is easy to be cynical and say that the site needs to be developed for big business and collecting taxes, but in reality everyone is hurting.   A number of small, independent and family businesses closed down because of this. Commerce is important.   We just need to do it ethically.

As someone mentioned, there is a lot of space open at the site.   It would easy to preserve the footprint of the WTC and develop around that.

Ron