Posted Jun 15, 2014, 5:46 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Washington, DC
Posts: 18,718
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Developments' square footage is not determined by what will look "very cool." Hines didn't design this to look stubby because they hate tall skyscrapers. They designed it to fit 640,000 square feet onto the property they own in the most efficient way. The height is simply a formula of the desired overall square footage and the lot area available.
You're asking for a 37% increase in the square footage of the building. If the developer thought they could fill a 37% larger building, and it were legal to build, and if the banks agreed to finance it, then that's what they'd have proposed.
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