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Old Posted Aug 5, 2022, 11:18 PM
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Originally Posted by BK1985 View Post
Also the towers all sit on top of the terminal so I would think they would appear even taller since the buildable space would basically begin at the roofline of the PABT itself.
That would definitely factor into design.



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Don't get too excited.

50 HY . 1,011 ft - 2.9 million sqft
Metlife . 808 ft- 3,078,513 sqft (I found conflicting numbers on this, but it's around 3 million sqft)
All of those towers have massive footprints, especially MetLife, with massive ground floor plates. These towers wont have much of that, and the bus terminal infrastructure will add to these towers being higher.
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