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Article: Disappearing Downtown?; Employers scatter around metro area, driven by deep emotion and transportation problems; huge damage already done; a comeback possible?(New York, New York, post-World Trade Center attacks)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Crain's New York Business
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- January 14, 2002
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Jordan Gruzen is a self-professed booster of Battery Park City, where he lives and has designed several buildings. After the 90 West St. offices of his architecture firm went up in flames on the day the Twin Towers collapsed, he wanted to build a new office downtown.
Instead, he relocated Gruzen Samton to the West Village at 320 W. 13th St. Some of his employees narrowly escaped death and saw others around them die.
``We felt a little guilty about leaving downtown, but the staff was very negative about it from an emotional point of view,'' he says.
Scores of office tenants such as Gruzen Samton have fled the neighborhood since the terrorist ...