The developer of the World Trade Center site has threatened to go to arbitration to settle a monthslong impasse to rebuild ground zero.
Many of the nation's largest public housing authorities fear they will be left out when the government distributes hundreds of millions of dollars for new plumbing, roofing and other capital improvements sought by Congress in the name of economic stimulus.
The owners of ground zero, locked in a new round of heated talks with a private developer about how and when to build office towers at the World Trade Center site, have proposed indefinitely putting off two of three planned skyscrapers until the real estate market recovers, officials familiar with the negotiations say.