AUSTIN | Waterline | 1,034 Feet | 73 Floors | T/O - Page 83

clubtokyo · #**1641** Posted **Dec 20, 2021, 1:43 AM**

Would be a huge game changer for Austin!

drummer · #**1642** Posted **Dec 20, 2021, 3:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by 427MM

Can't help but to be holding my breath for this one. Seems so legit and right but when something seems to good to be true... Really excited for this part of town (and our skyline) should it turn out as planned.

I feel the same way. Pretty exciting!

Urbannizer · #**1643** Posted **Dec 24, 2021, 6:40 PM**

I was hoping we’d have the tallest building under construction outside of NY and Chicago but Miami’s jenga tower may claim that title.

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...&postcount=160

Edit: Chicago’s supertall is wrapping up so we’d come in at #3

enragedcamel · #**1644** Posted **Dec 24, 2021, 8:19 PM**

Really bold of that developer to make such a massive investment in a city that may very well be underwater in 30 years.

wwmiv · #**1645** Posted **Dec 24, 2021, 8:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by enragedcamel

Really bold of that developer to make such a massive investment in a city that may very well be underwater in 30 years.

Miami isnt ever actually going to be underwater.

Altoic · #**1646** Posted **Dec 24, 2021, 8:47 PM**

Good for both cities, Austin and Miami deserve it.

enragedcamel · #**1647** Posted **Dec 25, 2021, 1:33 AM**

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Originally Posted by wwmiv

Miami isnt ever actually going to be underwater.

ok

ILUVSAT · #**1648** Posted **Dec 25, 2021, 8:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by Urbannizer

I was hoping we’d have the tallest building under construction outside of NY and Chicago but Miami’s jenga tower may claim that title.

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...&postcount=160

Edit: Chicago’s supertall is wrapping up so we’d come in at #3

Does that tower (300 Biscayne) have its construction funding in place?

obemearg · #**1649** Posted **Dec 26, 2021, 1:37 AM**

I believe so, the building is currently 60% sold:

https://www.thenextmiami.com/superta...permit-issued/

JACKinBeantown · #**1650** Posted **Dec 26, 2021, 4:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by wwmiv

Miami isnt ever actually going to be underwater.

That's because the water will just drain off the edges of the earth.

GoldenBoot · #**1651** Posted **Dec 26, 2021, 8:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by Altoic

Good for both cities, Austin and Miami deserve it.

1,022 feet for a city the size of Austin is amazing!!! Not many other cities on the planet could lay claim to a 1,000+ footer with roughly 2.5 million in its metro area.

bdurk · #**1652** Posted **Jan 2, 2022, 12:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by ILUVSAT

Both of those proposals date as far back as 2016 (if I'm correct). And were part of two major redevelopment projects with a combined value of well over $10 billion.
Where do they actually stand today?

They're still just proposals. The first parts of those two projects (Schuylkill Yards and Amtrak Redevelopment) were just renovations and have been completed and the first couple towers have broken ground. The two supertalls likely will not start for another 10 years. I honestly would not be surprised if a newer supertall was built in Philly before those two

wwmiv · #**1653** Posted **Jan 2, 2022, 12:59 AM**

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Originally Posted by JACKinBeantown

That's because the water will just drain off the edges of the earth.

No, seriously, and I say this as a Democrat:

Get out of the ‘woke’ echo chamber. Not even in the worst case scenarios is Miami really all that affected by sea level rise:

https://mdc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/web...f3e628a195a398

Set it to two feet, notice how few buildings are actually affected?

The real problems from global climate change for Miami are elsewhere, like water table rise and possible increased proclivity toward hurricanes and other extreme weather events. They aren’t going to be swallowed by a rising sea…

JACKinBeantown · #**1654** Posted **Jan 2, 2022, 1:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by wwmiv

No, seriously, and I say this as a Democrat:

Get out of the ‘woke’ echo chamber. Not even in the worst case scenarios is Miami really all that affected by sea level rise:

https://mdc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/web...f3e628a195a398

Set it to two feet, notice how few buildings are actually affected?

The real problems from global climate change for Miami are elsewhere, like water table rise and possible increased proclivity toward hurricanes and other extreme weather events. They aren’t going to be swallowed by a rising sea…

OK... now add giant waves and swells from those more intense hurricanes and extreme weather events, and watch the resultant inland flooding. The sea doesn't have to rise 10 feet for the city to be under water, even if only some of the time. It's already happened in sections of New York and it will only get worse. Anyway, this thread is about a nonexistent building in Austin.

KevinFromTexas · #**1655** Posted **Jan 3, 2022, 7:08 AM**

Yeah, it's not the constant water levels I worry about which even if they are higher will be tame and manageable, it's when that water turns into a fast moving torrent during tropical systems. Just go look for "Miami flooding" on Youtube, especially the videos related to Hurricane Irma.

I'm also less concerned with sea level rise as it'll be more or less unnoticeable, but what I do worry about is more intense storms and ones that are more frequent so that life and business stay disrupted often and long enough to make it not worth it (read economically feasible) for some people to stay. Not everyone down there has another house somewhere. Some of those are the primary residence of people who grew up there.

Altoic · #**1656** Posted **Jan 3, 2022, 7:22 AM**

https://www.thenextmiami.com/feds-no...rickell-coast/

This is a plan for storm surge.

JACKinBeantown · #**1657** Posted **Jan 3, 2022, 3:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by Altoic

https://www.thenextmiami.com/feds-no...rickell-coast/

This is a plan for storm surge.

Sad that it's necessary, especially when we could collectively have done something about it. But this looks like a good plan.

(How did this become a Miami thread? I guess I'm partly to blame. Whatever... when someone has something to say about this building we'll go back to Austin.)

Geckos_Rule · #**1658** Posted **Jan 3, 2022, 4:13 PM**

In 92RR-related news, a lane of Red River has been blocked off now...

It only raises the question for me of: with a lane of Red River being blocked for presumably 3-4 years at minimum, there functionally isn't a sidewalk going from Cesar Chavez to Rainey St until you get to the Quincy.... The renderings for this one give me hope, but they really better follow through on some sidewalks and walkability for their section of this land. Particularly considering that the same developer owns the parking lot across the street (which has just recently been paved, for some reason), and that won't be gaining legitimate sidewalks any time soon.

ILUVSAT · #**1659** Posted **Jan 3, 2022, 6:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by Geckos_Rule

...which has just recently been paved, for some reason)...

Maybe they paved it for construction worker parking - so that the cars going in-and-out don't create too much additional dust (and mud during rains)?!?

StoOgE · #**1660** Posted **Jan 3, 2022, 7:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by JACKinBeantown

Sad that it's necessary, especially when we could collectively have done something about it. But this looks like a good plan.

(How did this become a Miami thread? I guess I'm partly to blame. Whatever... when someone has something to say about this building we'll go back to Austin.)

I went to visit the lockes in the Netherlands a few years ago and they said that basically every major US metro on a coast has come to visit them in the last 5 years.