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FRANK J. SCIAME WORLD TRADE CENTER MEMORIAL DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS AND ANALYSIS INTRODUCTION On May 17, 2006, Governor George E. Pataki and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced that we would help lead the effort to ensure a buildable World Trade Center Memorial. The goal of our process was to ensure the World Trade Center Memorial be brought in line with the $500 million budget while remaining consistent with the Reflecting Absence vision and Daniel Libeskind’s Master Plan for the World Trade Center site. This document summarizes the findings and recommendations that arose from our process. After several phases of value engineering and analysis of the various components of the Memorial, Memorial Museum, and Visitor Orientation and Education Center (VOEC) design, we narrowed the field of options and revisions that were most promising to fulfill the vision of the Reflecting Absence design and the Master Plan, while providing significant cost savings and meeting the schedule to open the Memorial on September 11, 2009. Various potential design refinements were reviewed at a meeting with the Governor and the Mayor on June 15, 2006. Upon consultation with the Governor and the Mayor, it was determined that one option best fulfilled the three guiding principles articulated below. BACKGROUND SELECTION OF WTC SITE MASTER PLAN (Following are excerpts on the LMDC’s process – for more information please visit: ) /plan_des_dev/wtc_site/Sept2003Overview.asp In the summer of 2002, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) initiated a worldwide search for design and planning professionals to propose a visionary land use plan for the World Trade Center area. The challenge, among the greatest of our time, was to transform a 16-acre void into a place wh