Deal is reached to end impasse over WTC project

Thursday, April 27, 2006

NEW YORK -- Breaking an impasse that threatened to hold up the rebuilding at ground zero, state officials and developer Larry Silverstein reached an agreement Wednesday under which Silverstein gave up control over the planned 1,776-foot Freedom Tower.

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