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Last week, the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church announced a suit against the Port Authority over the agency's refusal to rebuild the chapel in its original location at 130 Liberty Street. But it could be too late, as agency and its contractors at Ground Zero appear to have designed the church right off the site.
The chapel was destroyed on 9/11, and the Port Authority would rather it was rebuilt on a neighboring lot, at 155 Cedar Street." - Matt Chaban
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The archdiocese insists on having a new church at 130 Liberty St., where the old Deutsche Bank building is being demolished. The PA wants it at the original church site -- 155 Cedar St., 100 yards to the southwest." - Steve Cuozzo
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The church came close to finalizing a deal with the Port Authority in July 2008. But after nine months of haggling over details, the Authority abruptly broke off negotiations, saying it had to start excavating the site for its Underground Vehicle Security Center—currently under construction beneath the land where the church once stood—or risk falling further behind in developing the site." - Matt Dunning
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There seems to be a bit of confusion or contradiction in the text here, or maybe I'm just dense. Is the church trying to get their same location back with simply an updated building more suitable for the time (which might seem pretty reasonable) or were they attempting to strike a deal for a new location and (potentially) got burned / burned themselves? We're talking a football field worth of distance between these two sites, so one would think it's substantial enough to have clarified.
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