In remarks made a few weeks ago in suburban Atlanta, Georgia’s Brian Kemp stands on his record as others eye his office at the capitol.
(For more economic development and corporate location news from Georgia and six other states, watch for the Southeast regional review in the November issue of Site Selection.)
A McLaren Engineering Group team designed this 9/11 memorial in Haverstraw, Rockland County, New York, so that the shadow from a twisted piece of girder from the fallen World Trade Center towers falls every year at 9:06 a.m. on September 11 on a fragment salvaged from the attack on the Pentagon.
Archive photo courtesy of McLaren Engineering Group
Over 25 years, Site Selection’s reporting and reflections on the 9/11 attacks has included reflections on early-career experience in New York City’s financial district in “Seeing Work Space in a New Light,” published in our November 2001 issue by longtime editor in chief Mark Arend; a July 2011 SITE Visit report called “Global Symbol, Sensible Choice” about the One World Trade Center complex rising; and the experience of Malcolm McLaren, founder, president and CEO of McLaren Engineering Group (acquired by KCI Technologies in 2024), around the attacks and then the cleanup and demolition effort that followed in “Return to the Waterfront,” a Site Selection Online Insider published in September 2018.
“One person described it to me as the worst thing you could ever imagine,” McLaren told us then, “but the best thing you could ever see when people came together and helped each other.”
In the five years since the launch of AccelerateMS — an office spearheading workforce development strategy and coordination amongst the state’s agencies, employers, educational institutions and community organizations — the state has welcomed billions of dollars in new or expanding high-tech and advanced manufacturing investments.
For the purposes of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund (VCF), the NYC Exposure Zone “is defined as the area in Manhattan south of the line that runs along Canal Street from the Hudson River to the intersection of Canal Street and East Broadway, north on East Broadway to Clinton Street, and east on Clinton Street to the East River; and any area related to or along the routes of debris removal, such as barges and the Fresh Kills landfill.”
Map courtesy of VCF
In an August 31 article in City Journal titled “The Staggering Financial Cost of 9/11,” Robert VerBruggen, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, quantifies in dollar terms the toll taken by the horrific event and its many consequences.
The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) as of August 31 had received 112,302 claims and awarded $18.56 billion, including $1.52 billion thus far in 2026. The VCF was established to provide a no-fault alternative to lawsuits and is administered by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Special Master, Allison Turkel.
PHOTO OF THE DAY
This 2018 photo by Carol M. Highsmith is part of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
This memorial photograph wall of people killed by the 9/11 attacks is located at the World Trade Center Memorial and Museum in Manhattan.
