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A spokesman for Bloomberg tells GlobeSt.com that he wants to help break the current impasse. "He wants to make sure they're talking," says the spokesman. "The mayor is a firm believer that Lower Manhattan is going to come back and we need to invest, and there are billions of dollars being invested now downtown, but, he wants to make sure we continue to see that," says the spokesperson.

Drawing on history, Silver told the Downtown Lower Manhattan Association breakfast that former New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, along with brother David, and the Downtown Association, led the effort to build the original World Trade Center even though demand for office space in Manhattan was weak.

As Angus K. Gillespie's book titled Twin Towers: Life of New York City's World Trade Center points out, as plans for the site became more clear in the 1960's, private real estate developers and members of the Real Estate Board of New York raised concerns about the 'much subsidized' office space going on an open market that had a glut of vacancies.