9/11 Terrorists' Apartment Destroyed for a Pool
South Florida's link to 9/11 will be demolished in February
By TODD WRIGHT
Updated 4:52 PM EDT, Mon, Feb 1, 2010
In a sense, the apartment at 1818 Jackson Street is a part of U.S. history, albeit the most infamous kind.
It's where Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi lived just before they piloted the two hijacked planes that crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11.
Now the dilapidated building is being torn down in a few weeks and will be replaced by a swimming pool and a parking lot, according to the Sun-Sentinel.
It doesn't seem right that a place that housed the most infamous of U.S. enemies will become the site where children and families will frolick during sunny days, but the laughs will never drown out the horrors contemplated on the site.
The building was recently purchased by Bryan Grosman, who owns a ritzy condo building next door. He said he knew the history of the building and the significance of demolishing it.
"It is one of life's little treats to be able to demolish a property like that, where a monster used to reside," Grosman told the Sun-Sentinel.
The non-descript building is in Hollywood's downtown area and is one of the few affordable apartments in the city. It is currently being rented to a woman with three cats for $500 a month.
For a month in the summer of 2001, it belonged to Atta and al-Shehhi. If those crumbling walls could talk, they would likely have heard bits and pieces of the plot that would become the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil in history.
The two terrorists also lived in other, similarly run down apartment buildings in South Florida before pulling off their plot.
First Published: Feb 1, 2010 2:51 PM EDT
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