Hasta La Ideas

After what seems like years upon years of standstills, redesigns, and often-aggravating controversy, there has finally been some movement on the Flight 93 National Memorial in rural Pennsylvania. The National Park Service has announced that they have finally finalized the plans to buy the piece of land needed to start building a permanent memorial. This is long overdue, positive movement for the victims families, of course, but we expect it might also result in more news coming from both the design theft camps and those few but very loud “it looks too Islamic” voices. Surely, everyone needs to have a proper say in the creation of the memorial to make sure everything it right about it, but here’s to hoping things will start moving more swiftly now and everyone can begin to push forward. Here’s a bit:

The park service said the deal would allow construction of the memorial to begin on schedule later this year. The goal is to have the first part of the $56 million initial phase of the memorial completed by 2011. The Svonavec family, the owners of the quarry, agreed with that goal.

“It didn’t make sense to throw off the gloves and come out swinging and delay the park from opening on the 10th anniversary,” Patrick Svonavec, the company’s lawyer, said Saturday. “We didn’t want to be a holdup to that. That’s not the makeup or the objective of the gentlemen who own the company.”

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