A week after he slammed the design proposals and warned development officials not to leave him out of the loop, World Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein is back in the mix.
“The [Lower Manhattan Development Corp.] reached out to us . . . and asked us to work with their chosen architects for the purpose of coming up with plans that would work for us,” Silverstein said in an interview yesterday.
The 71-year-old developer met Wednesday with Rafael Vinoly of THINK – one of two teams of architects picked this week to compete for the job of WTC planner. Silverstein will meet next week with the second team, led by architect Daniel Libeskind.
Silverstein, who holds a 99-year lease on the trade center, has also scheduled meetings next week with Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Pataki.