SLIDESHOW: The 9/11 Memorial Plaza and New World Trade Center Rise

With less than a month remaining before the 9/11 Memorial Plaza is scheduled to open for the first time, crews at the scene are wrapping up work a decade in the making.

While 1 World Trade Center is still climbing skyward, the memorial plaza is nearly finished, with cobblestones in place and one of the Memorial pools already filled with water.

Matthew Hampton is the local editor for Forest Hills Patch.