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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
I sincerely hope they can pull it off too.
But I was born in 1976. I've literally been waiting my whole freaking life to see my beloved city construct another mega-tower like Sears, but every. single. time. one gets proposed, our hopes get dashed. Even after construction started, in the case of the spire.
Forgive me for being a bit jaded.
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I don't blame you for being jaded, but I see it as more of a possibility in the future because while the Sears Tower is huge, it's not at all what it used to be, same way a 300 meter building seemed impossible for most places back in the 1970's but are now pretty commonplace.
It's nice that Chicago aims high though, even if it doesn't follow through with a lot of its proposals. This is actually true of most places anyway, think of all the never built projects in Dubai and East Asia, they shoot for the moon, usually miss but every now and then one happens. Hopefully Chicago gets lucky again.
New York probably has the best track record honestly... it's amazing how they follow through with so many supertall proposals.