The people who saw and followed the ESB under construction at the time were also familiar with the canceled projects. Because at the end of the 1920s, the Larkin Tower and the Metropolitan Life North Tower were proposed. The Metropolitan Life Company issued over 70 million dollars in construction loans on one day in February 1929. Whereby the Civic Center was only an architect’s vision and not a real proposal.
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And the future of New York skyscraper projects:
350 Park Ave. in my opinion gets a height increase of possibly 300 feet with the purchase of air rights.
Tower Fifth and 45 East 45th Street are still up in the air in my opinion, but they would be potential supertalls.
418 11th Ave. this is a development where I have to say we’ll have to wait a few more months for the proposals to come out. But it also shows how quickly a skyscraper can be canceled.
When I flew to New York for the first time in 2011, I read a strange article with the headline “Does New York suffer from fear of heights”.
How I would love to see a Megatall proposal in New York, or even a Megatall Complex.