Does Jersey City or Newark need a Supertall (1000FT+)Skyscraper? (flight path, safety)
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It'll happen eventually [to JC] as space starts to run out in Manhattan island, Manhattan real estate keeps soaring even more and the economy improves. Well, maybe not a "SuperTall" for a while but some pretty huge projects.
Thats my Home base , been a member since i was 14 - Aug 2005 (Original account) and 16 - Aug 2007 (Current account). So I use that site for mainly posting pictures ,and discussing things. I look around the world from that site into other countries from the safety of my laptop. I also belong to Skyscraperpage which is the older sister of SSC , i joined there in 2009. SSP is more detailed disccusion , they also sell things through various stories...
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It'll happen eventually [to JC] as space starts to run out in Manhattan island, Manhattan real estate keeps soaring even more and the economy improves. Well, maybe not a "SuperTall" for a while but some pretty huge projects.
Space ran out on Manhattan a long time ago. They just keep expanding Manhattan. I used to know some old guys, now pretty much dead, who worked on the construction of the original WTC. They would find parts of old ships, bottles, and other artifacts while excavating and have to stop while the NY Archeological Society came in and got everything. The site was once part of the river and/or the marshlands that were at the edge of Manhattan, and the earliest inhabitants had dumped their garbage there.
Then they took the excavated material from the WTC and dumped it in the river and built Battery Park City on top of it.
Maybe they'll keep going until someday Manhattan and Jersey City merge!
I can't beleave people are against the idea of a supertall in Jersey City or Newark. Theres alot of cities that are building Supertalls , usually 1 or 2 per city , it elevates your international status... As for EWR effecting height , the flight path is East of DT...
I don't think JC or Newark need one but if we had one I don't think it'd be bad lol. I think NJ getting a supertall would depend on the Manhattan market. Manhattan ran out of space decades ago so their only option was to go vertical.
-For JC, it depends on how 'hot' the waterfront market would get. There plans for a sub-1000 footer on the waterfront that got scrapped earlier in the decade.
-For Newark, something like a 550-700 footer would be ideal; anything taller would be out of place IMO (or at least until it fills in). The airport wouldn't block Newark from having one b/c downtown isn't in the flight path of EWR.
I can't beleave people are against the idea of a supertall in Jersey City or Newark. Theres alot of cities that are building Supertalls , usually 1 or 2 per city , it elevates your international status... As for EWR effecting height , the flight path is East of DT...
Well, flight paths change, but there are also invisible circles and cones and whatnot that delineate the airport's area, so it would have to not interfere with that. (Think of the baseball player who turned around and crashed his plane into the Manhattan building a few years ago--the reason he had to turn was because he'd officially entered into LGA's area.) Any bridges or structures in the area have restrictions on height because of the airports, even if they're not in what the lay person sees as the direct flight path. Any building within a certain number of miles of the airport would have to comply with FAA safety criteria.
Personally, I love tall buildings, even with my experiences of having to run out of them on a couple of occasions. It's like working in the sky.
Last edited by Mightyqueen801; 02-27-2012 at 10:51 AM..
While the 1300 ft. tall, it didn't interfere with the air traffic in the area. One in Jersey City might require re-routing. The space needed for such a building is extensive. the commercial real estate market wouldn't justify it although it would be years before it was completed.
In any case, I doubt any are planned for this areas.
While the 1300 ft. tall, it didn't interfere with the air traffic in the area. One in Jersey City might require re-routing. The space needed for such a building is extensive. the commercial real estate market wouldn't justify it although it would be years before it was completed.
In any case, I doubt any are planned for this areas.
The Base of a supertall is no wider then the average building unless shops or something fancy is placed on the bottom.
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