It also might make it more difficult to tear down the adjacent building when that time comes. Could also be a fire dept. regulation.
Maybe Stache but I suspect not. To build directly on top of the old building may require so much work to the old building that the developer may need to hire y and redo it. But that would require a buyout that neither may want. I don’t think it’s a code issue. There was a cantilever building that went down to the old one on Broadway in the 70s I think.
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On the good/better/best scale of aesthetics - this rates a solid GOOD. 
It’s a tale of two cities all on one block.
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Exactly. What is the paradox in the “tale of two cities”? One might ask!
One notable line in ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ can be found in this opening line: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”.
That comment highlights the simultaneous existence of prosperity and suffering…
Nice observation Stache… 
