I was trying to figure out what the fukk you were talking about, because Larry Silverstein doesn't have anything to do with Westgate.11 years LATER guess who owned the Nairobi Westgate!?
Then I realized that you were talking about Lowy, the guy who founded Westgate malls. But Lowy didn't even buy the World Trade Center, he was just a minor partner. He put in $140 million, a tiny fraction, to get the rights to turn 4 levels of the WTC into a giant Westgate mall. But because of 9/11, he DIDN'T get his mall. Instead, he ended up just selling his share back to NYC, paying for the rights to first dibs when the center was back open to retail again, and then paid again for the retail space in 2013 when it finally became available. But in the end he got barely half the space that he would have gotten in the original towers.
Why the fukk would a guy who runs mall want to be forced to wait an extra 15 years to open his mall in one of the world's most prime locations? And only get half the space that he originally would have had? How does that help him? He's 90 years old now (was 70 when the offer was first made), I have trouble seeing what he gains.
And the fact that the mall in Nairobi was a Westgate mall isn't some giant coincidence. Westgate is a massive company, they control over $50 billion worth of malls across the world. The fact that they had a mall planned for the WTC and also had a mall in Nairobi is just what happens when you have hundreds of malls. I mean, it took 12 years and the other side of the world before a terrorist attack affected a Westgate mall again, that's not even surprising that it happened eventually. But again, wtf does Westgate gain from losing business and revenue like that? It sort of interferes dramatically with their business model.
Also, the two companies lost five high-level executives in the attacks. But I guess they were just collateral damage too? "Hey, don't tell Larry but we're gonna blow this shyt up. Gotta make it look real, you know. I never liked him anyway."


