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Originally Posted by Metro-One
Still seems short, there seems to be many residential towers with 45 to 50 floors that are considerably taller.
Anyways, 10 year build out for a project this large seems pretty optimistic...would be great, but I am not holding my breathe.
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I looked at this the other day but from what I remember one of the documents said the floor counts count each floor of the mall as 2 floors, and there will be 3 mall floors. That means that 45 story tower is 39 stories of residential over 3 stories of mall space. Then on top of this like some have mentioned they may actually be taking out the 4th, and 13th floor's, and maybe even the 14th, 24th, 34th as well. Not sure what the benefit would be in inflating the floor counts at this point in the game? Unless someone just didnt think it through and used the numbers their salivating marketing team has been throwing around (which would actually make sense when you think about it).
The other options is that they did this assuming residents would complain one way or another and their intention is to knock off one or two floors, and then deflate the floor count to the real floor count to make their compromise look bigger then it really is. So their response to residents would be that they shortened the one tower, it is now 32 floors over 3 floors of mall space at 119m's. When in reality all they did was knock 2 floors off but it looks like they knocked 13 floors off at first glance (counting each mall floor as one and grouping them separately, and counting the 4th and 13th floors which would reduce the residential tower count by another 2. At least thats what I would do as I think the end result would be for them getting more height through then they would have otherwise because people focus in on floor counts instead of actually metric heights. (dont fight the residents, flow with them, show them what they want to see). So I say let them focus on the floor counts and take them for a bit of a ride, obviously you dont lie and say you reduced the floor count, you just highlight the accurate floor count, that is all. (by the way I hate developers and realtors for these things, but I dont blame them if no one is willing to put out some standards to follow)
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