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Old 01-22-2012, 08:45 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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The chicago spire.

2000 feet. Tallest in the nation.

Made the foundation then just left a big empty hole.
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Old 01-22-2012, 10:02 AM
 
Location: Louisiana to Houston to Denver to NOVA
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For New Orleans it was the Trump Tower:

File:Trump Tower New Orleans.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For Baton Rouge it was RiverPlace Condominiums:

http://www.riverplacebr.com/images/RiverRoad_ariel_baton.jpg (broken link)
RiverPlace Condominiums | Living High Above It All (http://www.riverplacebr.com/batonRouge.html - broken link)
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Old 01-22-2012, 10:12 AM
 
Location: Miami/ Washington DC
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Miami has plenty. One was the expansion of the metro rail system. Only the airport expansion has been made so far with nothing coming soon.

Two buildings which came to my head right away:
MIAPOLIS | WHAT IS MIAPOLIS

Empire World Towers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Also there is world center Miami, however if casinos are allowed this site may very well come back to life because the developers still own a large amount of land in downtown that it planned to use the land for.


Miami World Center - YouTube
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Old 01-22-2012, 10:16 AM
 
Location: The City
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Actually these plans are sort of back on the table as part of the Drexel Masterplan but likely 15 years away till all would take place in U City (below is the new plan)



With this part already under construction
http://www.pennconnects.upenn.edu/fi...uth_images.php
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Old 01-22-2012, 10:19 AM
 
Location: The City
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For New Orleans it was the Trump Tower:

File:Trump Tower New Orleans.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For Baton Rouge it was RiverPlace Condominiums:


RiverPlace Condominiums | Living High Above It All (http://www.riverplacebr.com/batonRouge.html - broken link)
The Trump looks like a scaled down Chicago version
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Old 01-22-2012, 10:22 AM
 
Location: Louisiana to Houston to Denver to NOVA
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The Trump looks like a scaled down Chicago version
Yeah and I hated that about it. Would've been nice to see some cranes downtown but without the Trump brand slapped on the building.
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Old 01-22-2012, 10:25 AM
 
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Yeah and I hated that about it. Would've been nice to see some cranes downtown but without the Trump brand slapped on the building.

Seems he had aspirations everywhere, this a dead (well think officially on hold) Trump tower in Philly at 750 ft

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Old 01-22-2012, 11:05 AM
 
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The chicago spire.

2000 feet. Tallest in the nation.

Made the foundation then just left a big empty hole.
I remember that building fairly well, I'm surprised they cancelled it in the way they did. Wasnt it a financial issue the reason of the cancel, or was it the market or both? Are there any plans for hole now?
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Old 01-22-2012, 11:18 AM
 
Location: Louisiana to Houston to Denver to NOVA
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Seems he had aspirations everywhere, this a dead (well think officially on hold) Trump tower in Philly at 750 ft

Image Detail for - http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_H4rniyeYe6Y/SQ-8slulD3I/AAAAAAAAAuw/9RpIvbVLILI/s1600/trumptowerphila1.2.jpg
Looks bland. I think it's less of Trump himself and more of the company branding his name to help business.
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Old 01-22-2012, 12:52 PM
 
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Signature Tower, 70 stories, 1030 feet, which would have made it the tallest building outside of NYC and Chicago (at least according to the Wiki article). They presold 25% of the residential space in 2007, and then it got killed with the recession in 2008.
Signature Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e0/Signature_Tower.png/360px-Signature_Tower.png (broken link)


The winner of strangest project ever announced, and luckily, never started, was Festival Tennessee (in a small town in Middle Tennessee). It was supposed to be an amusement park with a charter school, NBA team, 2 hotels with 4,000 rooms, 80 restaurants, a TV and film studio, conference center, etc, etc. All this on 1,500 acres of farm land with no sewer system. And it was going to all be ready 18 months later.
Everyone began making fun of it immediately, and it turned out the company & its executives had all kinds of problems, revoked charters, banruptcies, fraud convictions, etc. One was even a child molestor still on parole. The land was never even purchased and the whole boondoggle made the small town mayor look like a huge fool. Luckily, the state government stayed far away from the whole mess.

Best quote to come out of the whole thing was when a reporter asked the mayor if he had done any investigation into the company at all before announcing the project and he replied:
""Well, we did some. We Googled it just like everybody else." lol

http://i544.photobucket.com/albums/hh354/livinlife101_/festivaltn.jpg (broken link)
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