The WTC Vehcular Screening Center will open in 2015

At the southern end of the World Trade Center (WTC) site, steel framework is forming both the Vehicular Security Center entrance and future Liberty Park foundation. In the area bounded by Greenwich and West Street, and Liberty and Albany/Cedar Streets, Port Authority crews are currently at work in two phases.

Phase 1 is the western portion, where crews spent many months excavating and installing slurry walls around the perimeter. That section has structural steel now five stories high, and with its concrete roof in place is forming the ground level of the 1.4-acre Liberty Park.

At Phase 2 of the site, on the east side between Greenwich and Washington Streets, the steel that forms the spiral driveway is visible and rising. A large mobile crane continues to erect the helix structure, where in the coming years vehicles will be screened before heading into the WTCs underground parking lots and loading docks.

Once completed in mid-2015, the Port Authority plans to have Liberty Park completed above both Phase 1 and 2 sub-grade areas. St. Nicholas Church will be rebuilt at the Greenwich Street side. Designs for the new park include 17,000 feet of planting beds, pathways, benches, and ledges overlooking the rest of the WTC site, though full details for both the park and church are yet to be finalized.

Liberty Park and the new St. Nicholas Church will open above the WTC VSC

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