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Originally Posted by Natoma
A friend of mine met with someone from Hines yesterday and I fed him some questions to ask. The Hines guy said that they knew they were never going to get to 950 from the beginning. The 950 renderings were more of a creative exercise.
If they did go for 950, they'd have to jam so many elevator shafts that floorplans on those upper floors would be useless as offices. And they'd also take away from the lower floors. Apparently the only possibility for those upper floors was some type of small, needle-ey, exclusive hotel. (Which explains the original mixed use office/hotel plan) But the Hines guy said the economics of the hotel didn't work.
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Makes total sense, the efficiency of a building like this, particularly one this skinny, goes wayyyy down if you start muddling it up with mixed use and too many tiers of elevators. Oh well, this will still be a substantial building. Tallest office tower in the city in decades.