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Old Posted Jul 20, 2012, 1:56 AM
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Just been thinking about this but doesn't a FAR of 30 seem pretty low, especially when headlines are saying that this area will be rezoned so "large" towers can be built to keep the area competitive?
I mean, a 30,000 sq foot lot (which I think is pretty big) can only have 900,000 sq foot max tower built on it. It seems like all the new large office towers of this generation are in the 1.2-1.8 million sq foot range. (heck 4WTC has 1.8 million sq feet)
To get a building with the sq footage of just 4 WTC, you would need a lot of 60,000 sq feet, which is roughly the same size of 55 water street's gargantuan floor plates.
I just think a FAR of 30 seems rather low for such an upgraded rezoning.