Janno Lieber hangs up the phone. It hasn’t happened often in recent days, as talks between the owner and the lessee of the World Trade Center site have now reached an agreement after a four-month stalemate that capped more than four years of negotiations.

It seems that Lieber, as project director of the 16-acre World Trade Center site for Silverstein Properties — and developer Larry Silverstein’s right hand — will have a job for at least the next six years until the $7 billion Ground Zero build-out is achieved. Read the full story from the May 2006 issue. 

Source: From the archives: Larry Silverstein’s right-hand man