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Originally Posted by Echostatic
If this is talking about the tower on the parking lot, then it would probably be around 700 feet. It's a very large lot, and if the tower portion of the building uses all of it then it might not break any records.
Still fantastic to see this site get developed, no matter what ends up there!
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I mean, it is a big lot, but 1 million square feet is big also. The number I have for 500 West 2nd is 511,500 square feet, and it's a 400 foot building. The footprint of this tower would have to be twice the size of 500 West 2nd's for it to be another 400 footer, and that's not likely since it would make it ridiculously bulky. I'm not even sure it would fit on that block if that were the case. That block stretches roughly 600 feet from Red River to I-35, and is about 92,565 square feet. I mean, yes, they could knock out 1 million square feet by putting it in an 11-story building, but it would be 150 feet by 600 feet - roughly the width of the Capitol. My guess is it'll be about as tall as the Republic, but maybe a bit slimmer. I just can't imagine they'd gobble up that whole block.
The smart thing to do would be to have the office tower on the west side of the block and then build something else later on the east side of the block where the Ihop is, either residential or a hotel. The east side of that block is going to have protected views to the north because of the old Palm School that likely isn't going anywhere and Palm Park north of that. It would also have decent views to the south, assuming nothing else devours the rest of Rainey Street.