 The main sticking points for the U.S. side had been the amount of stand-off distance between the public street and the embassy facade, with fears of a vehicle-borne bomb being the biggest factor taken into consideration.The proposed realignment of the street on the west side of the proposed chancery was met with alarm by historical preservationists, who argued that the street realignment would take away from the Brandenburg gate's appearance.Also, on the south side of the proposed chancery is the recently completed German national Holocaust memorial, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.