The Oculus transit hub outside the World Trade Center. Photo: Patrick Gorski/Zuma PressAs its first-year anniversary approaches, the $1.4 billion World Trade Center, hailed as a milestone in lower Manhattan’s recovery from the 2001 terrorist attacks, is still a work in progress. “It’s also not a project you’d expect to be perfect out of the gate.”The number of shops open at Westfield World Trade Center has risen to 82 from about 60 at its outset, according to Westfield. Entrances to various subway stations are still being built and 3 World Trade Center, where the bulk of the project’s food and dining venues will be located, also is under construction. “It’s not unusual to have that level of change at all.”Shoppers at the Westfield World Trade Center mall.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 05, 2017 12:00 UTC