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Old Posted Jul 16, 2013, 12:07 AM
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They must have meant it'll be 9 floors of office over 6 floors of parking. They said the building would have 179,000 square feet of space. If that's not counting the parking garage that would mean the 3 office floors would have roughly 58,000 square feet each. I seriously doubt that would be the case. Most buildings typically have 20,000 to 25,000 square foot floor plates. That site is simply not large enough to have nearly 60,000 square foot floor plates.

173,000 square feet divided among 9 floors would be 19,222 square feet.

By the way, it was also Lincoln Property Co. that developed 100 Congress. They also teamed up with HKS, Inc. who designed it. They're both doing this tower as well. Hopefully it'll be something nice. HKS, Inc. does nice buildings. And this should obscure the fugly east wall of the Plaza Lofts a bit. This was the site of the planned and now canceled 1Hotel. That building would have been 215 feet tall with 17 floors. It would be nice to see something get built there since everything on that property had been demolished to make way for the unbuilt hotel.

And I would not be surprised to see a 15-story office building ending up being about the same height that the hotel was planned to be. I would imagine this will be around 200 feet tall.
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