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Originally Posted by ardecila
There's something appealing about the Citicorp-esque stilts of this, but the reasoning is bonkers. At least at Citicorp, the building sits atop a subway hub and you can argue the extra plaza space under the stilts is needed to accommodate the pedestrian traffic. Here, it's just a head scratcher.
They could tear down the senior housing and accommodate the seniors in the new building. A simpler design could easily cancel out the expense of building replacement units, which would be brand new. In addition to the cost savings, it would also eliminate the fugly senior housing building.
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I promise you hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent investigating that very possibility. Stern decided to build now rather than wasting ten years in litigation; with victory meaning a crowd of tv cameras surrounding a line of tiny, impossibly old, kyphotic ladies being wheeled out of their precious concrete pile of crap for the last time.
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