The Battle For Ground Zero, Part XXXVII

9/11 families will have a say in the IFC.

Officials with the controversial International Freedom Center at Ground Zero yesterday named a seven-member family advisory group as part of a plan they proposed last month to involve relatives of 9/11 victims.
The panel — proposed by IFC Chairman Tom Bernstein and Vice Chairwoman Paula Grant Berry in a letter to the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. — will advise the center's board and oversee the center's permanent exhibition on "The World and September 11."

The museum still needs to submit detailed plans about its content by Sept. 23 to the LMDC.

The Drawing Center dropped out when it refused to abide by the Governor's directive. I don't think that the IFC will abide by this plan, and the IFC will do pretty much anything to undermine the situation.

Mayor Bloomberg calls for people to continue donating to the 9/11 Memorial Foundation even as people are working to help the Hurricane Katrina victims.

As I reported yesterday, the LMDC held a ceremony marking the start of construction efforts on the WTC Transit Hub. Santiago Calatrava's plan should be complete by 2009. Groundbreaking on the memorial and Freedom Tower are expected to occur within the next six months.

UPDATE:
Rosaleen Tallon, a co-director of wtctowersmemorial.org asks what went wrong, and sees potential parallels between the rebuilding efforts at Ground Zero and the fingerpointing and blame game ongoing in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.