{{unreferenced}} '''Larry A. Silverstein''' is a Real_estate investor and operator and the head of Silverstein_Properties_Inc., a real estate development group. Silverstein is also a member of New_York_University's Board of Trustees. ==September 11, 2001 attacks== Larry Silverstein, backed by a number of investors, signed a 99-year lease for the World_Trade_Center complex just seven weeks before it was destroyed in the September_11,_2001_attacks{{fact}}. Silverstein already owned 7_World_Trade_Center which was also destroyed in the attack{{fact}}. Silverstein was awarded an insurance payment of more than three and a half billion dollars to settle his seven-week-old insurance policy{{fact}}. In addition, the Silverstein group sued the insurers liable for the World Trade Center for another three and a half billion dollars, claiming that by an obscure clause in their contract, the two planes constituted two separate terrorist attacks{{fact}}. Most of the insurers prevailed in a trial (Silverstein was never granted an additional $2.3 billion in extra insurance money as a result) while others are still in litigation{{fact}}. Silverstein has insisted on limiting the occupied height of new buildings at the site to around 70 stories despite views that the new building (or buildings) should be no shorter than the old World Trade Center{{fact}}. ==External links== * Silverstein Properties * Yahoo! - Silverstein Properties, Inc. Company Profile * Silverstein Loses Trade Center in Attack, After Hard-Won Lease - Sep 12 2001 {{Business-bio-stub}} Silverstein, Larry Silverstein, Larry Fi:Larry_Silverstein Nl:Larry_Silverstein