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Originally Posted by eschaton
1. The proposed new residential tower for downtown at the WYCA site. One of the biggest surprises here is it appears they want to renovate the existing WYCA building and use it as a base for the tower structure. I would have thought that in order to create the foundations needed to secure a 20-story tower they'd need to clear the site. I'm also a bit surprised that they're going before the ZBA first, since it's far more common for downtown projects to first go to the Planning Commission. Regardless, we have seen a lot of this before, but I believe there are still a few new (crude) renderings. |
It was originally constructed to add a tower. So the foundations, etc. are already primed for the addition. Obviously that never ends up as easy as it sounded 40 years ago.