In early 2009, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey began work on the new “south bathtub” between Liberty and Cedar/Albany, and West and Greenwich Streets. The bathtub allows for mass excavation and construction of the new Vehicular Security Center (VSC) entrance and ramp into the main World Trade Center (WTC) site.
To excavate the site, new slurry wall panels are installed and reinforced on all sides. (The existing west bathtub slurry wall along Liberty Street will be used as the south bathtub’s north wall.) With the bathtub perimeter walls in place, site excavation, rock blasting and removal, and utility work is continuing into 2012. VSC construction will follow through approximately early 2014, to serve as the secure underground entry point for the entire WTC complex.
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National 9/11 Memorial Welcome Plaza: The temporary WTC Memorial "Welcome Plaza" is now open at the south end of the 130 Liberty Street site, at the coner of Albany and Greenwich Streets. To read more about the 7,500-square-foot, open-air plaza, click here.
South Bathtub "Phase 1" is the site bounded by Liberty, West, Cedar, and Washington. Work there includes: steel and concrete placement. A tower crane is mobilized inside the site at West and Liberty Street.
South Bathtub "Phase 2" is the site bounded by Liberty, Washington, Albany, and Greenwich (the former 130 Liberty site). Work there includes: excavation and concrete placement.
Port Authority crews are now working daily double shifts at the South Bathtub, including extended hours to 1 a.m.
130 Liberty Street site turnover to the Port Authority took place in late February 2011.
Preliminary design research is taking place for the future Liberty Street Park
For more information about the World Trade Center site’s redevelopment and to contact the Port Authority, please visit its website at www.wtcprogress.com.
In April 2010, the state Department of Transportation (SDOT) reconfigured the Liberty Street Bridge so the Port Authority can excavate the new “south bathtub.” SDOT removed the eastern-extension tube that landed at Washington Street, and created a new extension that sends pedestrians to a new stairway and elevator to the south, at Cedar and West Streets.
The bridge modification allows Port Authority crews to complete slurry wall installation in the south bathtub. The temporarily reconfigured Liberty Street Bridge opened April 21, 2010. It will be modified again in several years, once the Port has built the proposed park that will occupy the area between Liberty and Cedar Streets.
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