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Originally Posted by Shakespeare2016
I tend to think if they end up building it may be need to be shortened by 500 to 600 feet and a couple 650 footers and a 750 footer to balance the skyline. There could be just enough demand there to have one of the tallest buildings in the US outside of Chicago and NYC. They would certainly have a lot of bragging rights if a building
that tall is built. A guy who works at Vast once told me that the Devon Tower was first planned to be around 1,100 feet.
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Correct, the Devon Tower was reduced in height by, I believe, 6 floors when they decided to move their data center out of the tower. They ended up adding to a warehouse structure at Airport Rd and Meridian and built their massive hurricane-proof data center there.
Had those floors been added, the tower would have been something like the 2nd tallest west of the Mississippi river. It's amazing how many spots down it took it, but removing those few floors. But remember that the floor heights on this building are also taller than the average bear too. So those 6 floors, meant a lot more height than one would normally see in a tower.
Of course, then we saw Devon build the BOK Center next door as their overflow so I question the logic for not going ahead and building them anyway, other than the fact that the energy sector took it's normal down turn (then up turn) and they decreased their employee count and thus the amount of space needed, and basically didn't move anyone in next door. Well, that's how speculative building works....