If there's a silver lining to this, it's that I've spent two years trying to get people drummed up on this issue and it was very difficult to get them to pay attention. In the last 10 days, there's been no shortage of people paying attention to it.
Our belief is the more we can move the process forward, the more we can bring people back to the site, the more we can create opportunities for uses at the site,
Our case is on a very different basis than the state's case. Ours is a pure contract dispute.
We would like to obtain information to show that it's not a security risk. This is in our back yard.
We will accept nothing less than the right transaction.
Today we begin to take back a site to restore something that was taken away from us on September 11.
This is a real turning point in the development of lower Manhattan.
Our agreement allows construction to begin literally tomorrow.
While today's announcement is an important and necessary first step, criminal background checks must eventually become a part of the screening process.
The real risk we see from a port security standpoint is that somebody's going to put something in a container. We are talking about, literally, the first baby steps in a huge process that has to happen. We're trying to create a smart box.
