Progress on the rebuilding of Ground Zero in lower Manhattan is now becoming more evident as One World Trade Center topped 36 stories recently, and the building is supposed to be on its way to the distinctive height of 1,776 feet by 2012. The building, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, is now growing at a rate of one floor per week, after years of political, security and financing issues plagued the $11 billion multi-building project. A push is underway in both New York and Pennsylvania to complete memorial projects before next year's 10th anniversary.

Nine years after terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, a memorial and a transportation hub are taking recognizable shape and skyscrapers are finally starting to rise from the ashes of ground zero.

The most important sight at ground zero now is Michael Arad’s emerging memorial. The shells of two giant pools are 30 feet deep and are set almost exactly in the places where the towers once were.

The huge waterfalls around the sides, the inscribed names of victims and the plaza are promised by the 10th anniversary next year. But two 70-foot tridents that were once at the base of the twin towers were installed last week. The museum will be built around them by 2012.

A grove of sixteen swamp white oaks was planted at the National September 11 Memorial on Saturday, August 28th, 2010 in New York. They are the first of nearly 400 trees to be planted around the eight-acre memorial to the nearly 3,000 people killed when terrorists attacked the twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001.

A 70-foot steel column recovered from the World Trade Center rubble was installed at the site of the 9/11 museum on the World Trade Center site on September 7th, 2010 in New York City.

The Tribute in Light once again was visible behind the construction cranes on One World Trade Center, among the lower New York skyline, Saturday, Sept. 11th, 2010. In the annual tradition, the two bright blue beams of light rise from lower Manhattan in memory of the fallen twin towers.

The first outlines of Santiago Calatrava’s elegant PATH station are visible. Giant white ribs and other structures that will support the birdlike hall are moving into place. The temporary PATH station shuttles 70,000 commuters a day through the construction site.