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Downtown Visions for the Arts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) LMDC works in cooperation with its partners in the public and private sectors to coordinate long-term planning for the World Trade Center site and surrounding communities, while pursuing short-term initiatives to improve the quality of life in Lower Manhattan during the revitalization effort. LMDC is committed to an open, inclusive, and transparent planning process in which the public has a central role in shaping the future of Lower Manhattan. LMDC also conducts public hearings, participates in Community Board meetings, and continuously meets with community groups, civic organizations and public officials to ensure the opinions of those who were affected by this tragedy are taken into account. www.downtownvisions.com /lmcd.php   (805 words)

The 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero 9 11 Families for a Safe and Strong America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) LMDC plans to break ground on the 9/11 memorial March 13 regardless of the fact their botched process and mismanagement has resulted in a poorly thought out and unlivable memorial design, one that is unwisely being expedited in the hopes that the end, however poor will justify the means. The LMDC was not tasked to secretly work toward their preconceived concept of it, to develop a concept in secret, or to deceive the public into believing the plan is what the public wanted. The LMDC was given 2.78 billion dollars to build a fitting 9/11 remembrance at Ground Zero and redevelop the World Trade Center site yet, after four years of passing that money out, they are short somewhere between the 400 and 700 million dollars needed to build the planned memorial and museum. www.911familiesforamerica.org /Page.html   (2007 words)

LMDC Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) LMDC President Kevin M. Rampe said, "The quality and diversity of the programming that will be at the World Trade Center site is a reflection of what we heard from the public concerning the future of the site and a testament to the process we have undertaken. LMDC Vice President and Director for Memorial, Cultural and Civic Programs Anita Contini said, "All the organizations that were part of the ICI process contributed to an important dialogue about the role of arts and culture in rebuilding the WTC site. The LMDC sees great value in all the 15 short-listed institutions and will continue to explore, in concert with our state, city, and community partners, how the remaining institutions can be a part of the cultural development of Lower Manhattan outside of the World Trade Center site. www.joyce.org /lmdcpressrelease.html   (2821 words)

Downtown Visions for the Arts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) LMDC is also seeking information from cultural institutions interested in locating or being part of cultural facilities and/or programs on the World Trade Center site. LMDC is using the Invitation to Cultural Institutions to get a broad idea of who out there is interested in being involved and on what scale. The LMDC is reviewing everything that was written by any member of a in any of the "brainstorming" groups and will be synthesizing the information into a report, due out this fall, that will eventually be posted on their website. www.downtownvisions.com /whats_going_on.php   (983 words)

Good Jobs New York However, the one LMDC proposal to address this issue offers only a fourth of what the Mayor had reportedly requested ($50 million rather than $200 million) and, since its much-publicized announcement in July of 2003, it has yet to be approved. Organizations with which LMDC board members are affiliated have received a total of $112.4 million of the discretionary rebuilding grants awarded by the Corporation. The LMDC has not yet released several of the studies it has commissioned, even though they are intended to guide its allocation policies. www.goodjobsny.org /lmdc_report_execsum.htm   (1291 words)

LMDC Answers More Questions About 130 Liberty St. LMDC will continue to coordinate with members of the community and stakeholder groups to identify how residents and workers will be notified in the event of emergency situations. LMDC will be hosting a public information session in January to provide the community with an overview of the Phase I Deconstruction Plan and to hear community comments and questions. The LMDC has also coordinated with the firehouse in regards to access and circulation around the station for proper clearance and space availability for the firefighters to be able to respond to emergencies in proper fashion. www.lowermanhattan.info /news/lmdc_answers_more_questions_44030.asp   (3692 words)

Disaster News Network: NY debates post-9/11 demolition The LMDC released the first draft of the proposed demolition plan in December 2004, and the EPA responded in January 2005 by delaying approval until more antipollution safeguards are added. Other agencies the LMDC is coordinating the demolition with include the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the New York State Department of Labor (NYDOL), the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and both the state and city departments of health. LMDC President Kevin Rampe also gave testimony before the select committee, noting that he wants the LMDC to be judged on the ultimate result of the demolition, and not on each version of the demolition plan released. www.disasternews.net /news/news.php?articleid=2570   (1585 words)

World Trade Center - Memorial and Reconstruction Proposal - Plans and photographs of a proposal for the World Trade ... In standing up to LMDC with such vigor, Arad is asserting himself in a manner parallel to what Maya Lin experienced in her travails with federal authorities in the early 1980s, when design details for her Vietnam memorial were being poked and hacked from left and right. The contact at LMDC is said to have added that the first-stage results are expected to be released in the next 2-4 weeks, on their website. Let LMDC complete their background checks and qualification verifications on the finalists, on the remote chance that one or two may be dropped and your proposal happens to be next in ranking. www.planetcast.com /wtc   (10592 words)

New York Daily News - Ideas & Opinions - Anthony Gardner and Patricia Reilly: Memory lapse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) The LMDC's latest iteration of Arad's design is one that is 31% smaller than the original, and the central waterfalls - the most powerful design feature - will only operate nine months out of the year. LMDC continues to shrink the memorial despite the fact the original design was too small to accommodate the estimated millions who will make a pilgrimage to the site. The fact that LMDC failed to consider the extra costs involved with heating the memorial's massive waterfalls so they may flow in the winter months reflects its gross mismanagement of the redevelopment. www.nydailynews.com /news/ideas_opinions/story/379342p-322171c.html   (627 words)

World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition was an open, international memorial contest, initiated by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC), as per the specifications of architect Daniel Libeskind, to design a World Trade Center Site Memorial (later renamed the World Trade Center Memorial) on a portion of the reconstructed World Trade Center site. Entries were examined by "LMDC staff" prior to jury review to determine whether they met the competition requirements. The Jury was selected by the LMDC in consultation with the mayor and govenor. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Trade_Center_Site_Memorial_Competition   (1323 words)

Matter of Wall St. Garage Parking Corp. v Lower Manhattan Dev. Corp. (2004 NY Slip Op 51582(U)) The LMDC is a subsidiary of the New York State Urban Development Corporation doing business as Empire State Development Corporation, a political subdivision and public benefit corporation of the State of New York. LMDC is also a participant in both the planning and funding of the installation of "more visually appealing and more effective security equipment and an improved streetscape plan (Id.). LMDC contends that it participated in numerous meetings with local property owners, businesses and others to discuss various issues, specifically focusing on ways to improve access and making the area more attractive while preserving and enhancing necessary security. www.courts.state.ny.us /reporter/3dseries/2004/2004_51582.htm   (1290 words)

LAHORE: Sacked LMDC professor alleges victimization -DAWN - Local; 13 February, 2004 LMDC principal Prof Dr Naseeb Awan, however, told Dawn that the college had terminated her services because it found a more highly qualified person for the job. Prof Javaid took a stance in her presentation that allowing students to appear for the examination was not her decision but that of the college administration and particularly the college principal, Prof Awan. Prof Javaid said Prof Aftab's report was forwarded by the UHS VC to the LMDC principal who sent the report to her for comments. www.dawn.com /2004/02/13/local27.htm   (363 words)

felixsalmon.com: — LMDC in the LES The LMDC scheduled six workshops: for the City Hall/Seaport area; for Battery Park City; for the Financial District; for Soho/Tribeca; for Chinatown; and for the Lower East Side. But it was not to be, and the LMDC promised instead to hold another meeting in the next couple of weeks to which anybody excluded from this one could come. The LMDC didn't help matters by opening the proceedings with a general overview of the New York City "Vision for Lower Manhattan", which is in reality only peripherally related to the disbursement of the HUD grants. www.felixsalmon.com /000180.php   (1092 words)

Real Estate Weekly: LMDC grants amnesty to fessed up residential scammers So far, four people have been arrested on charges of fraud and the LMDC is conducting several other investigations, said the agency's spokesperson, Joanna Rose, who was unable to comment on the size of the fraud. However, the LMDC is hopeful that people will come forward and has even attempted to get the word out to people that, if they have received money they shouldn't have, they should notify the LMDC and return it, no questions asked, no legal action taken. HUD and LMDC have made it clear that the people who received their benefits legally will not be affected by the loss of funds, but every six months there will be a re-certification process conducted to make sure people are still living at the same address. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3601/is_50/ai_109133659   (631 words)

LAHORE: Medical college seeks pardon: Admission irregularities -DAWN - Local; 28 January, 2004 The LMDC had registered, against high dues, over 200 students who had either secured less than 60 per cent marks in FSc pre-medical examinations or merely passed intermediate with arts subjects or were simple matriculates. The UHS syndicate, in its Nov 19 meeting, had also discussed the irregularities in admissions committed by the LMDC and resolved that the university would stick to the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council rules and give no relief to candidates failing to meet admission criteria. Dr Asghar, on behalf of the LMDC principal and board of directors, stated in his letter to the governor: "I beg you sir to review the entire record and instruct the university authorities to stop maligning us. www.dawn.com /2004/01/28/local17.htm   (397 words)

Lower Manhattan Development Corporation ALICE M. The LMDC is happy to join the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation in announcing that Alice M. Greenwald will become the Director of the WTC Memorial Museum. LMDC President Stefan Pryor joined the Partnership’s Board and the September 11 Fund on November 18, 2005, to announce Mr. The LMDC has provided $7 million to cover staff and equipment costs over the next four years. www.renewnyc.com   (993 words)

www.nyenvirolaw.org : WTC Page As of February 22nd of 2005, The LMDC published the results from the Supplemental Testing on its website as promised, including the Visual Mold Inspection Report. On December 13, 2004 the LMDC will be releasing the first phase of the "Deconstruction Plan" and will be officially submitting the plan to the Regulatory Agencies for their review and approval. The LMDC's initial demolition plan was not accepted by the EPA and is being revised. www.nyenvirolaw.org /wtc-index.htm   (2281 words)

Take Back The Memorial Pryor claims LMDC has “consulted” with stakeholders “and developed a design pursuant to this process.” The reality is LMDC developed a design regardless of the process and in complete disregard of basic historic preservation laws and standards. LMDC is obliterating most of both tower footprints at bedrock by filling them in with exhibit space for the museum and other infrastructure. LMDC is not preserving the footprints at bedrock, as previously promised by the Governor, and there will be no place in this current design where visitors will see or understand the scale of the towers or the loss of life. takebackthememorial.com   (2881 words)

Take Back The Memorial » Blog Archive » Family Member Alliance Responds to LMDC Mediation Plan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) The LMDC appears not to understand that the objection, in principle, to the presence of the IFC on the World Trade Center site is no longer a matter that can be resolved by 9/11 family groups alone. The LMDC’s stubborn refusal to acknowledge this wider rejection of the IFC mirrors its denial of other critical problems with the larger memorial and memorial museum plans. The LMDC cannot demonstrate that the memorial itself and the underground museum on the site will be able to accommodate visitors without having to turn away millions per year and thousands daily. takebackthememorial.org /?p=170   (447 words)

LMDC announces international design competition for the World Trade Center site The LMDC will release a Request for Qualifications on Monday, Aug. 19, which will be available on LMDC's Web site at www.RenewNYC.com. The LMDC will work with New York New Visions to appoint a team of outside advisors who will narrow the field of potentially thousands of respondents to between 10 and 20. The LMDC has partnered with New York New Visions in recognition of the organization's commitment to excellence, as stated in New York New Visions' Principles for the Rebuilding of Lower Manhattan: "New York City should aspire to the highest possible quality of urban planning, architectural and environmental design in rebuilding Lower Manhattan. september11.ceenews.com /ar/electric_lmdc_announces_international   (1112 words)

Disaster News Network: Allocation frustrates NYC groups Community groups are continuing to urge the LMDC to focus the remaining $850 million in cash grants on unmet needs they say have been ignored. The corporation is also defending its public input process, with Rose saying that LMDC held numerous public hearings and allowed for significant public input to the funding proposals. Flynn said the forum’s attendees and speakers asserted that LMDC-distributed funds are the community’s money. The LMDC needs to hear the community, she said, and the corporation’s attempts thus far at hearing from the public are sorely lacking. www.disasternews.net /news/news.php?articleid=2586   (723 words)

LMDC moves up date for final site plan to February The LMDC, charged with redeveloping lower Manhattan, hired seven teams of architects to produce creative and visionary plans for the trade center site after its six initial site plans were panned. Publicly, LMDC and Port Authority officials say the two agencies are talking about creating the same site plan, with the Port Authority focusing on transportation and infrastructure and LMDC focusing on development above ground. "We are pleased the LMDC agreed with the Port Authority that we need to accelerate our schedule and scope of work to match the master plan announced by executive director [Joseph] Seymour two weeks ago," said Port Authority spokesman Mike Petralia. www.cdfa.net /cdfa/press.nsf/pages/554   (567 words)

Wired New York Forum - When will the LMDC be dissolved?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) It already seems like they're becoming irrelevant, because the FT presentation was not staged by the LMDC. December 21st, 2003 10:14 PM There are other projects aside from the WTC that the LMDC is involved in. December 21st, 2003 10:14 PM The LMDC was created to assist Lower Manhattan, hence the name. www.wirednewyork.com /forum/printthread.php?t=4364   (128 words)

LMDC Official Proposal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) Our experienced staff work in teams and are used to cooperating with other design teams to come up with a consistent look and feel, always keeping the end user in mind. Work with LMDC to develop an application for the collection and management of public comments using the web site. We will be employing one staff member who will, with the assistance of other members of staff within the company, administer the site and provide server reports, and the server maintenance will be performed by our hosting company, who have included that price in their server costs (see IIIc5.). webdesign.senecac.on.ca /cmcdowell/lmdc/public.html   (1956 words)

Directions to Lake Merritt Dance Center There is free parking in the lot (entrance on Bay Street), LMDC is walking distance from the 19th Street BART station, and just off the 580 Harrison offramp. LMDC is at the corner of Bay, Harrison & Grand. LMDC is the big, beautiful white building on the corner of Grand & Harrison, across from the Lake. www.balboaswing.com /directions.html   (230 words)

Power Line: Enter Congress: A letter to the LMDC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) It is our belief that the LMDC should use that time to refocus the IFC to reflect on the events of September 11th, 2001 and the tremendous sacrifice and loss that we suffered as a nation. If at that time the LMDC can not prepare a more fitting exhibition, we will be forced to seek appropriate legislative actions and remedies to redress the situation. Let’s hope the LMDC hears the growing force of voices demanding they take back the memorial and return it to its proper focus. powerlineblog.com /archives/010891.php   (596 words)

Ground Zero Diary The other thing I like about the site is that the LMDC has published its meeting schedule and the minutes of past board meetings. Apparently, each of the 11 LMDC board members has been asked to set up various subcommittees that will advise the board members and LMDC staff on a host of redevelopment issues. Madelyn, for example, has been asked by LMDC chairman John Whitehead to appoint 10 to 15 people to subcommittees on three issues: local residents, arts and education. www.groundzerodiary.com   (5643 words)

Bring It On - In search of democracy at Ground Zero. By Michael Sorkin This noodling has inspired the new projects: After six misbegotten and conceptually identical office schemes commissioned by the LMDC were presented in July and universally derided, the embarrassed LMDC announced that it would conduct what has widely been misrepresented as a "competition" to elicit "visionary" architectural proposals. The LMDC listens without obligation—a style of decision-making that asks people to place their faith in its own finesse. The crowds that now gather in the Winter Garden, where the new schemes are on display, testify both to the strength of feeling and the depth of interest in the future of the site—and to the public's ability to assimilate architectural and planning ideas. www.slate.com /id/2077010   (887 words)

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