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Originally Posted by SkyscrapersOfNewYork
I always knew that the WTC's master plan would become a problem for downtown...Lower Manhattan has no space left for new development, it's narrow streets make it less appealing then midtown and to top it off the small plots that are left are being taken and banal residential towers are being built on them. The only place LM has to go is up. To compete as a CBD in years to come LM has to build lager slender towers and the WTC cannot hold LM hostage just because it holds a sentimental place on the skyline. We need more supertalls and were probably one of the only cities on the planet that has an actual demand for them. I only hope that one WTC looses its place as The areas tallest skyscraper in the next few years and the WTC keeps its master plan to itself and not superimpose it onto all of Downtown.
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Agreed. However it seems very likely that 1 WTC will remain the tallest building in Lower Manhattan for most of our lifetimes. I don't really see space in Lower Manhattan that could yield a succeeding supertall or megatall unless one of the boxes were demolished. The WTC will probably always dominate Lower Manhattan, but at least Midtown is developing rapidly in the West Side.