After Delays and Floods, 9/11 Museum Work Back on Track
June 28, 2013 | Read Time: 1 minute
Construction on the National September 11 Memorial & Museum is racing ahead as workers make up for months lost to financial and political disputes and Hurricane Sandy flood cleanup, the Associated Press reports.
Museum officials say the project is on track to meet its latest scheduled opening date in the spring of 2014. About 130 workers are on site daily, and some of the museum’s most powerful artifacts, such as a mangled fire truck and the intersecting steel beams known as the Ground Zero cross, are already in place.
A dispute among New York City and state officials and the foundation overseeing the project about responsibility for cost overruns and operating expenses shut down construction for a year in 2011-12.
A month after that fight was settled, Sandy flooded the largely subterranean site, pushing work back for several more months, but museum President Joseph Daniels said construction crews have made “almost indescribable” progress since the storm.
