Primers on high-security building design warn against basement garages. It’s a lesson learned from bitter experience: the 1993 truck bomb that exploded below the World Trade Center, killing six. But parking is a key commercial asset, and a large underground facility is planned for the Freedom Tower. Designers promise that vehicles will be screened and that blast-resistant materials will be used.
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i feel that the freedom tower project thing is cool but what ken gardner proposed is an idea maybe better thought out i guess idk i feel that the twin towers II is more of a better layout of what to build on the world trade center site plus i think i read that the freedom tower or the one world trade center has like a poor design or something but thats my opinion and i know they already started to build the one world trade center but mr.gardner said they might be able to build on the frames or watever of the freedom tower