That's cool! But a building can be 47 stories and still be under 500 feet.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, although the Kim website says it's 45 stories. I guess it could have been re-designed (We hope)


That might be true, but read the headline again. It says "......proposes plans for tallest project in downtown San Diego"

How tall is the current tallest?

^^ One America Plaza at 500 feet

FYI - Here is a list of the 20 tallest buildings downtown (completed/approved/proposed) from Emporis. It's not up-to-date, but it gives you some general info:


San Diego High-rise Buildings

# Building Name Height Floors Year Status
1. One America Plaza 500 ft 34 1991 completed
2. Symphony Towers 499 ft 34 1989 completed
3. Manchester Grand Hyatt 497 ft 40 1992 completed
4. Library Tower 478 ft 43 2008 approved
5. Cosmopolitan Square 2 478 ft 36 2008 approved
6. Electra 2 475 ft 43 2007 under construction
7. The Pinnacle Museum Tower 15 450 ft 36 2005 completed
8. Emerald Plaza [Emerald Plaza Center] 17 450 ft 30 1990 completed
9. Manchester Grand Hyatt.. [Manchester Grand Hyatt..] 32 446 ft 34 2003 completed
10. One Santa Fe Place [Santa Fe Place] 1 440 ft 26 approved
11. Pacific Highway @ E [Pacific Highway @ E] 425 ft 37 2009 approved
12. Harbor Club West [Harbor Club Condominiu..] 26 424 ft 41 1992 completed
13. Harbor Club East [Harbor Club Condominiu..] 23 424 ft 41 1992 completed
14. Vantage Pointe Condominium 1 420 ft 41 2008 under construction
15. The Grande North at Sa.. [Grande at Santa Fe Pla..] 3 420 ft 39 2005 completed
16. The Grande South at Sa.. [Grande at Santa Fe Pla..] 21 420 ft 39 2004 completed
17. Advanced Equities Plaza 7 412 ft 23 2005 completed
18. Mondrian 411 ft 42 2008 proposed
19. Bayside at the Embarcadero 1 395 ft 36 2009 under construction
20. Union Bank of California Building 16 388 ft 27 1969 completed

I know for a fact that Oliver Mcmillan is working on a proposal now to turn that storage unit into a hotel that is approx the height as the Office tower. Even though the storage unit make them a boat load of money!!!!!

So then the proposed tower would have to be at least 501 feet ;)

Awesome, I'm glad that self storage will go. Btw how do you get your info?

Thats great. I mean, the storage unit is white and bright green, c'mon now.:rolleyes:

That's true. I was just thinking that developers tend to say that buildings are taller based on floor count. I honestly don't think a 500 foot tower could go on that location though, because of its proximity to the flight path for Lindbergh Field.

47 story hotel......
 

They have a Crappy picture of the project.... And it looks taller then 500ft, some of their other projects are down right ugly!!!!

http://www.chhatrala.com/developments.htm

Hopefully... their webpage will provide more information later.

You are correct. If you read the Center City PDO, there are no height restrictions, other than areas around parks

The owner of Ballpark Storage is OliverMcMillan, and it makes more money for them than their apartment buildings. That is not going anywhere.

Re: Ballpark Storage
 

We will see what happens in 6 months to a year from now.....:rolleyes:

You are correct OM makes a assload of money... It has been 95% occupied for the past 5 years... But changes will happening there!!!

I can't devolge much information.... But sources tells me that OM and ENDEV have been talking about various projects including that Ballpark Storage for development... Of course, talking and doing are two different thing!!!!

It looks decent, the crown could maybe be re-worked though.

You guys should look at the link for the 47 story hotel/condo development. There is a project in India that joins two towers with a big fake diamond. It's hilarious. :jester: Some are small pleasant hotels nothing more then a 100 rooms. I do not know how much we can depend on these guys. Going from doing a 5 story 100 room Holiday In in Oceanside to doing a 47 story luxury hotel condo is a big leap.

Here is the rendering of the proposed 47 Floor building...
http://www.sddt.com/images/news/2007...0_columbia.jpg

^OCtoSD, I think that you are right about not depending on these guys too much. As far as the looks of the tower, it doesn't make me feel anything either way, but I wouldn't really care how it looks if we got a building over 500' built because it could open the way for more buildings over 500' which is really what's important.

^Good point.

i dunno how to feel about this....

i think by tallest they just mean the one with the most floors, not actual height