I’ve been hearing similar. While 270 Park is huge, those ridiculous ceiling heights and number of mechanical floors chip away at its useable space. 390 Madison isn’t going anywhere. 277 is the most clearly temporary office; as for 383, I haven’t heard any ideas on what will happen next to that space.
I’m not sure that’s quite how it works since neither of those factor into useable floor area, mechanical space is not included in FAR calculations and ceiling height isn’t really generally a factor either. But outside of that, the floor heights are actually very typical now of both trading floors (22’) and typical office floors (15’).
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Not saying that those are counting into the FAR; I’m saying that the rate of useable square footage is low compared to the building’s overall cubic volume. The Empire State Building has more rentable space despite a much smaller volume. I’m not saying they should build ceilings as low as the ESB anymore, but 270 Park seems a bit excessive. 60 floors (per the architect and JPM’s press releases) does not make sense for a 1400 foot building-- they could have fit everyone into the tower if they put more floors into the design.
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I couldn’t find anything on them wanting “everyone” in the tower itself, but there is a large focus on more space and volune for every employee working there. High ceiling heights were apart of that.
Straight from JPMorgan:
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- Designing 50% more communal spaces and 25% more volume of space per person – giving more choices in where and how to work. Flexible column-free floor plates will allow space to easily change layout and floor design, including inter-floor connections.
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Besides, most of JP’s workforce in the region are from branch offices, which don’t need to work in this building
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They wouldnt have been able to put more floors though, because they built up to the FAR limit, you can’t compare the ESB to this building because it has a FAR of nearly 31 on a bigger lot size, which would certainly make it have much more rentable floor area.
Putting more floors into this building would have just been reshuffling the existing area around instead of creating new area.
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Looks like they started cleaning the windows, which seems odd since there’s still alot to go in terms of completing the envelope so there will be different dirt streaks on the places that got cleaned first instead of a fully clean face when all the facade is done.
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great composition
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This is my latest video. Enjoy!
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As of this morning, I can see they began to fill in the facade on the mech floors of the third tier and it’s catching up to the rest on the eastern facade.
Not so much on the west side around noon
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Fantastic video from 9Mile Productions… 
Here is a recent photo taken from the M57 bus…My have the gear, and working conditions changed.
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That was enjoyable to watch! It’s always amazing seeing how much NY has changed in the past few decades! When you look at something like “Cherish The Day” from 1993 (when ESB and Chrysler were the tallest buildings by big stretches) vs now, it’s just… WOW!
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