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The Rise of Lower Manhattan

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    Ten years after 9/11 changes can be noticed

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It's like -- feeding all that starts out slowly gets faster and faster.

The -- striking out that there -- Young families moving in here and this is has -- a place of life and renewal.

In lower Manhattan there is one massive.

It impossible to pure example of this for you.

Memorial is open construction on the sixteen acre World Trade Center site is easy to see.

But the rise of lower Manhattan is also found -- a little bit.

My daughter's -- -- fall.

And it's only been in existence for ten years and sorry -- us.

-- DeVine and her family moved into their apartment in lower Manhattan's financial district a year after the September 11 attacks.

When we first moved here people were for it.

After they just didn't know what was gonna happen but slowly people -- to trickling in moving and things started to change.

Historically the southern tip of Manhattan was -- during the day and bearing that night people say you could have heard a pin drop on Wall Street.

I've been here since 1990 -- the -- his -- ghost town I have to go to fourteenth street to get a New York Times and Saturday night things like that -- just -- nothing here no no amenities it was basically a -- through -- -- was designed people who -- working here Monday through Friday.

Today all the buildings on the south side of Wall Street -- residential buildings.

So people -- walking their dogs that coming home at the grocery a lot of energy and life.

After the business day and -- according to the alliance for downtown New York there are almost eight and a half thousand companies located here.

That's a 130 more than on 9/11 2001.

And by years in the area -- have added more than seven million square feet of residential space since the attacks.

Residential population down town.

Amazingly has doubled since 9/11.

We had our.

First first communion in fifty years this past year we had here in saint -- because these attitudes have years -- these children who sort of came here before here after 9/11.

Downtown has become an amazing.

Exciting dynamic it's not just about banks and financial people and bankers' suits and ties anymore you've got a lot of -- -- companies.

A lot of communications companies advertising PR branding it's a much more much younger and more creative kind of business community.

We found ourselves in this growing community and nobody knows where it's.

So we're really happy with the -- and we love the -- school.

We love all the people that we've met who live in the neighborhood the whole idea saying it isn't even in New York.

To -- like it does to us.

So we won't end here.

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