Why is it that Midtown is booming with construction but this is pulling teeth to get off the ground
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Iâve mentioned it before but it does seem like almost every financial district project goes through some length of development hell. You either get a subpar version of the original idea or nothing at all
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Because of an incapable developer.
The site has 9 million square feet that are 95% leased.
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Better transit to the wealthy New York suburbs and Connecticut.
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The same can be said for the rest of lower ManhattanâŚ
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How come that the same folks who came up with top notch architecture in 2006 just embrace this slop nowâŚ
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I canât really blame Foster when the biggest disappointments with this are its diminutive height and width, which are limitations that probably have more to do with Silverstein or whichever potential tenant dictated them. The design language is still there and still pretty good, apart from the second highest pair of tubes stepping the opposite way north-south which looks pretty weird.
It would be just as much of a butchering if the 2006 diamonds had been cut in height by this much.
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The way the renders are lined up and their perspectives make the latest revision with the height cut appear as tall as the BIG stacked boxes and the original diamonds proposal, and less apparent. I donât know if thatâs a good thing or not..
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The spire helps. I think it works for both the building and the center. Not my fave but JUST GET IT BUILT! 
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Itâs because the perspective is misleading. It shows the 2021 version appear taller than 1wtc while it was slightly shorter
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that is a really cool image of both 1, 2, 3 WTC
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2 World Trade Center Interests me A Little The recent Design With The Spire
actually (in My Opinion) is kinda cool
i Feel Like The WTC cannot Fully Heal Without 2 or 5 WTC
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I wouldnât be surprised if Silverstein pulled another 3WTC and axes the spire because of the costs.
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yâknow what i Agree with you on that one
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I went away for a couple Of weeks, what even is this garbage? I will just use a quote that Silverstein has already heard for this: âif we rebuild the World Trade Center in the form of a skeleton, the terrorists winâ
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Shitstein by Silversteinâ˘
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Honestly at this point i feel like silverstein probably should have let someone else develop this building. I mean its been 19 years since plans were first released and the building has been on hold for 13 years now. How many times over these past years have we been gaslit by hearing âstay tuned, things are happeningâ just for nothing to ever happen. Its crazy to think after all these years they havenât found a tenant to fully commit or raised the money to build it without a tenant.
5WTC has been a disaster as well. After all these years it finally gets approved just for them to not even have funding to build it so who knows when it will even rise? Sorry for my rant but its just been ridiculous following this building all these years and originally having such a beautiful idea for this building just to end up with our possible current plan with the spire. At this point its highly unlikely larry will even live long enough to see everything completed. The sad possibility is we could blink and another 10 years pass by and this site will still be nothing more than graffiti sheds and a beer garden
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Iâve said it before and Iâll say it again. Letâs all pool money into this thing and become the anchor tenant this building needs. We could finally get the Diamond top design.
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