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the jazz church at citicorp is the kind of multi/non denominational sacred space that i would envision for the ground zero memorial. no propaganda. just a place to pray and no one telling you what to play.

The new St. Peter's church building is shaped abstractly like two hands held together in prayer, with large vertical windows offering passersby glimpses into its interior and the Erol Beker Chapel that contains a large sculptural wall by Louise Nevelson. The church was well known for its jazz programs under the Rev. Ralph E. Peterson, and those programs have continued after its rebuilding.

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Frank Gehry's forthcoming performing arts center at the World Trade Center site, already indefinitely delayed, looks like it may get Freedom Center'd (née Drawing Center'd). David Dunlap reports in the Times that at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation board meeting yesterday, he got the inkling that—since construction costs are rising—the performing arts center might have to duke it out with the memorial for funds.
TBTM poll: which would you choose?
If given a choice between building a "cultural arts center" OR building the 9/11 Memorial and 9/11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site, which would you choose?

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BETHLEHEM, Pa. A full decade after the shuttering of Bethlehem Steel’s flagship plant, officials are rolling out their latest proposal to transform and resurrect the nation’s largest abandoned industrial site: an arts complex called “SteelStax.”

The 17-story blast furnaces that have dominated the city’s skyline for a century would tower over new performance spaces for music, dance and theater.

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