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Originally Posted by JK47
This is why we can't have nice things. I said this would get another height cut and it did. I said there was no way this gets built with terracotta and that's gone. I still remember people here swearing up and down that Related wouldn't water down the materials further in addition to a height cut.
In the end the best that could be said for this is that it's taller than the letdown that is Salesforce, they buried the podium, and they managed to refrain from encasing this in blue glass. Otherwise, everything else that was interesting or notable about the design got cut. There's also the high likelihood only one of these gets built so we'll have yet another orphaned twin in this city.
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Oh shoot the terra-cotta is nixed?
I’m still holding out hope that the phase two gets up zoned to the same height or slightly taller than the N tower. In both the taller original and the shorter new proposal, the north tower is roughly 850 ft which makes me think that the spire foundation can only support about that much height. Makes sense related would want to reuse that foundation to possibly save money, hence the awkward taller north tower in the smaller proposal. Otherwise there’s just no reason on earth the N tower should be taller.
So, I don’t think the S site is constrained by anything other than nimbys and Brendan Reilly, which MAYBE cool it after they see the minimal impact of phase I? Related knows how to play the long game perhaps?