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Originally Posted by Ant131531
They really couldn't just build one tower 600 feet tall? Isn't it more expensive for companies to build two towers rather than one? Only in Atlanta do you have this wierd decision making. Anywhere else and this company goes with 1 fairly tall skyscraper. This has got to be the weird zoning in Midtown.
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I was thinking along the same lines. These Midtown regulations are a little peculiar.
I understand that the cost’s associated with building taller can be more, but If it’s cheaper to build two buildings on two separate city lots, then the land must be relatively cheap – comparatively speaking.
As far as these restrictive Midtown Zoning regulations are concerned, there seems to be a large number of buildings in various development stages that worked through these restrictions to propose taller buildings than these relatively “squatty” buildings that we keep seeing pop up all over Midtown.
We have 1105 W. Peachtree of course at 29…or is it-31 stories? Cousin’s Properties appears to be working through the regulations to construct a 30-story office building down the road at 7th & 8th Street. CA Ventures is proposing a 33-story & 27-story residential buildings. Trillist Company is working on a 46-story residential tower. How are these companies building taller buildings?
If the restrictions only apply to this part of Midtown (in the vicinity of Tech Square) it would seem prudent if the City or Midtown worked on reviewing these restrictions so that we don’t end up with a huge portion of Midtown having a condition of what we can loosely called of “height monotony” or just looking like an uninteresting swath of ordinary.
Yes… I know, it shouldn’t matter what a building’s height is as long as the street presence is pleasing, but we all know that we often judge a city by how interesting it’s skyline is from a distance – not only at street level. Of course you can always have a taller building and great street presence too!
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