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Originally Posted by Pete8680
Im sure if some rich Saudi oil prince or some Asian tycoon said i'll pay 150 million 4 the top floor pent house but ONLY if it's the tallest building in NYC they will 4 get about that 1,775 foot limit. Placing limits on a building is honoring nobody. Imagine having no ships longer then the Lusitania? Is that honoring the dead? I don't think so.
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It's probably a well intentioned idea, but not thought out. For one thing, as I said earlier, if a developer wants to and
can build taller, he will. But more importantly, trying to honor the Freedom Tower by not topping that 1,776 ft mark misses the main reason for that building being built. It was not simply to honor the year 1776, but to restore that same spirit that built the original complex. To build high, and
higher even. Originally, there were those who thought New York would and should never build tall again. That fear mongering gave way to the "voice" of New Yorkers who demanded something tall be built to restore the skyline. That the city would not bow down to the threat of terrorism, which will always be with us anyway. And that's what we got. Trying to stunt the skyline, while maybe well intentioned, flies in the face of that. You honor the World Trade Center by building with that same spirit. Stopping the spire just a foot short is much too obvious.