This new mixed-income housing complex comes with its own farm

Today, we bring you a special issue of Compass. It's dedicated to the 20th anniversary of 9/11, one of the saddest days in U.S. history. While the cou ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

Presented by   Today, we bring you a special issue of Compass. It’s dedicated to the 20th anniversary of 9/11, one of the saddest days in U.S. history. While the country mourns on this day, we at Fast Company look out our office windows at 7 World Trade Center and see where the very spot where the Twin Towers stood, today home to a poignant memorial. Together with people at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, we have a visual daily reminder of that tragic autumn morning. But even for Americans who aren’t near terrorism sites, 9/11 resonates. According to a new exclusive Harris Poll conducted for Fast Company, 87% of people familiar with 9/11 consider it the most significant news event of the last 50 years. Among that swatch of respondents are 85% of those ages 18 to 34, which includes folks too young to remember that day—or weren’t even born yet. Read my story here.  — Zlati Meyer   9/11 20 years later, the 9/11 attacks are still seen as the biggest news event of the last half-century According to a new Fast Company-Harris Poll, Americans across demographics view the events of September 11, 2001 as the most significant news in 50 years. READ MORE   9/11 7 ways 9/11 influenced pop culture that you may have forgotten or never known about Many remember the Onion headlines and the wave of war movies that followed, but the impact of 9/11 on pop culture went deeper—and often off the radar. READ MORE   9/11 How 9/11 sparked the rise of America’s biometrics security empire Hundreds of millions of people have been caught up in the U.S.’s biometrics databases—at home, at the border, and abroad—including millions of Afghans who now may be at risk from the Taliban. READ MORE

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This new mixed-income housing complex comes with its own farm The 361-unit complex will also have enough land to produce 20,000 pounds of produce a year, available at a discount to residents. READ MORE

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