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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.
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)
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?
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
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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
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