He's the only architect listed on the Observer's Dec. 2000 list of Players in New York's real estate game. Engineering a backroom takeover of the WTC rebuilding project may just be one step in David Childs' larger plan: to 0wn the West Side of Manhattan. The site is in line--the Eighth Ave. subway, to be specific--with other major Childs' projects in NYC:
![The New Penn Station, image: pixelbypixel.com](http://www.pixelbypixel.com/farley/night_above_th.jpg)
![Frank Gehry/David Childs NYT HQ, image: guggenheim.org](http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/past_exhibitions/gehry/images/projects/projects_images/ny_times13_lg.jpg)
42nd St: 7 Times Square, good for spying on Conde Nast.
50th St: Worldwide Plaza (I bet the model looked great)
![AOLTW Center, image: wirednewyork/landolove.com](http://www.landolove.com/pix/nyc/nyc_aoltw4.jpg)
116th St: East Campus Towers at Columbia, which would've gone where the Law School now is.