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It's nothing special...but I think very well done.
Stats:
-Opened in 2010
-417 feet tall
-29 Stories
-520,000 sq ft office space - 23,000 sq ft retail space
-1 acre green roof on top of parking garage
-Certified LEED Gold
-Designed by Pic kard* Chilton & Associates
*stupid censoring tool keeps **** this out.
Nice. Nashville's on the come up! What ever happened to that monster they were gonna build? I think it was Signature Tower, something like that. Supposed to be the tallest in the south. I'm assuming the economy crashed those plans?
The only true "skyscraper" (as in a structure taller than 20 stories and a structure has any impact on the skyline) Detroit has gotten since Comerica Tower (43 stories) in 1996 is the Greektown Casino hotel (30 stories). Other than that, Detroit has only had 3 skyscrapers built since the 1960s-1970s (only 5 in that era, excluding the Renaissance Center, again of the 25-30 story variety), most of them built in the early-mid 1980s and are only 25-30 stories tops.
Of course the Greektown Casino Hotel is so tacky and it sits under the shadow of that Behemoth (the Renaissance Center) that you wouldn't even know it's there, and I don't even bother to give it a second thought.
Hopefully one day, before I die, Detroit will also have a massive skyscraper boom, along with a really tall skyscraper that's stand alone like other major US cities.
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What's the latest scoop on the San Francisco's supertalls? There were three buildings that are over 1,000 feet tall and a few 900's. I know the Transbay Terminal transportation hub is currently being built, but what about the towers around the hub? Set for completion in 2017 last I heard... so what does that mean for groundbreaking and construction?
Yeah, you're thinking of the Transbay Tower which was originally proposed as 1,200 feet tall, and another proposal that is now dead that included two 1,200' towers. The Transbay Tower is now going to be 1,070' instead to keep it from casting large shadows on Justin Herman Plaza or Union Square, and instead of the two other 1,200 foot towers, there is now a proposed project of 3 towers on that site, of 915', 640', and 184'. There was another 900' tower proposed, but it's since been downsized to 700'. Zoning allows for buildings of 600', 700', 750', and 850' in a few more areas too, with the rest of the zoning in the Transbay redevelopment area having shorter height limits. Everything's basically a little shorter than before, but the tallest proposed towers and height limits are still pretty tall (with two new tallest towers for SF), and would break the 500 foot table-top effect that much of SF's skyline has.
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Houston has a lot of new office construction but a recently announced builiding in the energy corridor is only 20 stories (its a spec office tower) ExxonMobil has a campus underway in North Houston, rumor is that 12 buildings are going up but probably a mid rise campus according to rumors running. Hess just moved into a new 1M SF building in DT Houston but it finished up a few months ago.
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