<div id="subtitle">1 World Trade Center reaches 20th-floor level; 104-story tower to be completed in 2013</div><div><p>Structural steel for the 1,776-foot tower that will be known as 1 World Trade Center has risen 200 feet above street level, a tangible sign of ground zero progress, redevelopment officials said Wednesday.</p><p>"This progress is one more sign that the site is not a pit anymore," said Chris Ward, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the 16-acre trade center site.</p><p>Workers are now installing 16 steel nodes on the 20th-floor level, Ward said. They serve as joints between the steel framing for the building's podium and the steel for the rest of the tower.</p><p>The 104-story skyscraper is scheduled to be completed in 2013.</p><p>Work is also proceeding elsewhere at the trade center site, Ward said, as the Port Authority's commissioners held their monthly meeting on World Trade Center rebuilding.</p><p>"What people can't see ... is over 600,000 square feet of museum space being built below grade," he said.</p><p>The commissioners approved contracts for several projects, including a contract with New York-based DCM Erectors for installing the bronze that will be inscribed with the names of those who died at the twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001.</p><p>___</p><p>On the Net: http://www.wtcprogress.com</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=68401351&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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