Who gaf if it makes sense
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Investors lol
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clearly parking is at a premium, I only count about a dozen parking lots
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The investors think that it does. But that obviously wasn’t what I was referencing, the investors aren’t the ones tripping because a large building is being built somewhere outside of Chicago or New York, you guys are.
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The point of the joke was, what investors?
As of now, all we have is a rookie developer with no highrise track record saying “trust me, I’ve got $1.5bn lined up” for a tornado alley supertall with no commercial use case. Supertall towers don’t have anonymous financiers — if this was a real project, we would know who the money behind it was.
The people you think are “tripping” that OKC might have the US’ new tallest tower are actually laughing because you think it will.
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He’s got a chip on his shoulder and I’m not sure why.
This proposal and situation reminds me of exactly what happened to the American Commerce Center. All I’ll say it…it never happened. But I’m a little optimistic, yet I don’t want a design this bland passing One World Trade Center
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even if they build a tower just barely taller than the Devon Center it would incite the haters. That would be taller than most US cities have built.
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he meant where they can or cant build supertalls not the ones being stalled
Reread both posts, the comment was saying that towers that are not built in NYC was more so because zoning and not demand, to which I responded it was because of demand, and any towers planned are stalled because of demand.
Mcart is very straightforward in their posts, I didn’t need clarity.
You can build however tall you want in NYC (to a certain degree because of the airports and specific areas being zoned for a particular height) so that definitely is not what Mcart was talking about.
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if you say so. genuinely nice to have a civilized disagreement.
now I’m going to sound like I’m making up new stuff to support what I said. but I realize now the point I tried to make yesterday made little sense.
I meant you cant build super talls because of zoning so I guess you’re still right but that was what I meant.
Not to continue to derail this thread, but that was my original point, that zoning does not factor into height of a building because there is no height limitations in NYC. Buildings being planned are not stalled because they can’t be built to a certain height (zoning).
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If anything they should put red FAA lights all over the tower like in London. I think that looks interesting
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Still putting my money on the “this will never get built” option.
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Guaranteed payout on that.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Progress on the Bricktown development that includes plans for the tallest building in the U.S. has been slow since the City Council lifted a height restriction in June allowing the proposed 1,907-foot Legends Tower.
“We are planning on starting construction first quarter 2025,” developer Scot Matteson said in a text Thursday. He did not say what steps needed to be completed before construction can begin.
Previously, Matteson said that grading and infrastructure work would begin by late summer 2024 on the $1.6 billion Boardwalk at Bricktown project.
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