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A decade after the Al Qaeda terrorist attacks on Lower Manhattan, business, tourism, and new construction at the World Trade Center site have rejuvenated the formerly devastated cityscape. The National 9/11 Memorial will open to the public on Sept. 12, 2011, and will be dedicated at a ceremony on the 10th anniversary of the attacks.
Click through to see how ground zero has changed since 9/11, and what the area is expected to look like in the future.
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More than 2,700 people were killed when Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked US passenger jets and flew them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Following the devastating attacks, rescue workers put out fires and searched for bodies and survivors at various sites in the rubble of the World Trade Center.
Rescuers sifted through rubble at ground zero on Sept. 13, 2001.
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The remains of the World Trade Center stood amid the debris following the terrorist attacks in this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo. Sept. 11 memorial museum planners have proposed displaying pieces of steel recovered from ground zero.
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The 9/11 attacks also transformed the New York City skyline and the neighborhood around the site.
Rescue workers were taken by boat from ground zero to Jersey City, N.J.
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Over the years, ground zero became a site for prayer and remembrance for residents and tourists. A decade after 9/11, Lower Manhattan, including the area around ground zero, draws roughly 9 million of the city's nearly 50 million visitors a year.
President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, participated in a wreath laying ceremony with Marine Major Paul Montannus at ground zero on the one-year anniversary of the attacks.
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Family members and friends of 9/11 victims mourned at ground zero during a ceremony commemorating the one-year anniversary of the attacks.
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Un círculo monumento fue colocado en la parte inferior de la zona cero durante el primer aniversario de los ataques
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Cero también se convirtió en un sitio para reuniones diversas, al igual que las protestas se calienta más de un centro comunitario propuesto islámico, que incluye una mezquita, cerca del lugar. Leer más | Q & A de personas participaron en una manifestación contra una mezquita propuestas y un centro comunitario islámico cerca de la zona cero en Nueva York el 22 de agosto de 2010.
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De las cenizas del 9 / 11 ha subido un barrio vibrante lleno de nuevos restaurantes y hoteles, lugares para vivir y lugares para hacer compras, además de muchas maneras para rendir homenaje a un área de unos preocupado nunca regresaría. dolientes rodeado de un espejo en el sitio del antiguo World Trade Center para presentar sus respetos durante las ceremonias en la zona cero el 11 de septiembre de 2005, en Nueva York.
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A ceremony on May 30, 2002, marked the end of the recovery and clean-up efforts and the start of rebuilding efforts. During the ceremony, the last steel beam left standing from one of the World Trade Center towers was driven away from ground zero as New York City police and fire department members saluted.
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Construction began on the site in March 2006. The memorial design was created by Architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker, who were selected from a global design competition that included more than 5,200 entries from 63 nations.
A construction vehicle drove into ground zero during the ceremonial start of construction on One World Trade Center (formerly known as the Freedom Tower) on April 27, 2006.
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Through the years, construction was slow and faced several delays and disputes. In February 2010, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg criticized the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which controls the property, for obstructing and delaying the rebuilding efforts.
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The 9/11 memorial includes two large reflecting pools that sit within the footprints of the twin towers. The pools are each nearly an acre in size and feature the largest man-made waterfalls in North America, according to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum
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Israeli-born architect Michael Arad first imagined the twin reflecting pools with cascading waterfalls — he called them voids — as two empty spaces in the Hudson River west of the smoldering World Trade Center, to mirror the absent towers. The pools were eventually moved to the twin towers' footprints.
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The names of all the 9/11 victims and victims of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing are inscribed into bronze panels on the edge of the two pools.
Water flowed in the south pool at the 9/11 memorial in New York.
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The memorial occupies half of the 16-acre World Trade Center site, which will feature several towers. More than 400 trees will surround the reflecting pools as part the eco-friendly Memorial Plaza.
A model inside Seven World Trade Center showed the site of the World Trade Center.
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Work continued on the foundation of Three World Trade Center on Aug. 10, 2011.
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From left: One World Trade Center (formerly known as the Freedom Tower) and Towers 2, 3, and 4 at the World Trade Center site in New York were pictured in an artist's rendering. Construction of two new skyscrapers at the World Trade Center site began in January 2008, and the third tower in July 2008. Construction of the Freedom Tower began in 2006.
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The World Trade Center site also features a memorial museum dedicated to the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives in the 9/11 and 1993 World Trade Center attacks.
Work continued on the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site on July 15, 2011.
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The site will also feature a transportation hub, which will serve more than 200,000 commuters daily, along with the many annual visitors to the World Trade Center and Memorial. The hub was designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
An artist rendering of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub.
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An artist's rendering of the planned transit hub.
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The first design for the underground mezzanine of the transportation hub showed daylight flooding the space through glass paving blocks above the ribbed vaults.
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The second design for the underground mezzanine of the World Trade Center.
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An artist rendering of the galleria at the World Trade Center, an east-west underground connecting passageway between the transportation hub and Battery Park City. The arches are made of steel and covered in fireproof paint.
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The site will also feature retail space. Westfield Group, the world's biggest shopping center operator, agreed to invest $612.5 million to develop the retail part of the World Trade Center.
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A lot of the changes in New York since 9/11 can be seen in the evolution of the skyline. Pictured, the Manhattan skyline in March 2000, where the twin towers of the World Trade Center could be seen from Jersey City, N.J.
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A view of the New York City skyline without the World Trade Center towers on the afternoon of Sept. 12, 2001.
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A rendering of the Manhattan skyline as envisioned in the year 2012, when the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site nears completion.
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From left: the Four Seasons Hotel and private residences designed by Robert A.M. Stern; 175 Greenwich St. (Tower 3), designed by Richard Rogers; 200 Greenwich St. (Tower 2), designed by Norman Foster; 7 World Trade Center (opened in 2006), designed by David Childs; One World Trade Center, designed by David Childs and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill; Goldman Sachs headquarters, designed by Pei Cobb Freed.
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From left: the Four Seasons Hotel and private residences designed by Robert A.M. Stern; 175 Greenwich St. (Tower 3), designed by Richard Rogers; 200 Greenwich St. (Tower 2), designed by Norman Foster; 7 World Trade Center (opened in 2006), designed by David Childs; One World Trade Center, designed by David Childs and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill; Goldman Sachs headquarters, designed by Pei Cobb Freed.
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