The agreement comes two weeks after an arbitration panel issued a ruling giving the Port Authority and Mr. Silverstein a March 12 deadline to agree to a construction timetable.

达成这份协议的两周之前，一个仲裁小组裁定港务局和西弗·斯泰恩在3月12日的最后期限之前就建造的时间表达成一致。