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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
and much more expensive to build in the first place.
two ~800 footers are far less expensive to construct than a single 1,600 foot tower of equal net square footage.
going supertall costs a lot of extra money on a PSF basis.
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I've heard that many times, but I've often wondered why. With a single tower you'd only have a single slab and the working crews would be focused on the single project rising - instead of two separate foundations and two individual buildings with all the additional things that come with having a new, second building. Intuitively it "feels" like a single giant tower would cost more per sqft but I simply don't understand the mechanisms responsible for that.