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Originally Posted by reparcsyks
I've been wrong so many times on so many things, that I'd be happy to be wrong here, but I don't see any company needing a supertall ever again in Philly. And we don't have the residential demand to build thin, supertalls for billionaires.
Again, I'd love to be wrong -- but I don't see it - and I'm fine with it.
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So did you predict that Comcast would be building a supertall here in the first place? If you did, was it back in 2007 when they were building the first skyscraper that wasn't a supertall? Maybe 10 years earlier when they weren't the giant company that they are today? Was it back in 87 when we just broke the gentleman's agreement? Was it in 77 when it looked like no building taller than City Hall would ever be built?
Of the 4 times I mentioned above over the span of 40 years, I'd say only one had some possible optimism of an immanent supertall (87), but a supertall was eventually built. To assume that NO supertall will EVER be built in Philadelphia EVER AGAIN is insanely extreme.
Progress is ongoing, construction costs change, land value will change drastically, massive corporations grow and sometimes move, pandemics and other world events happen. If supertalls are for billionaires, over time, those will become more common too with inflation and time. The world is not stagnant.
To say there won't be one in 5 years, 10 years, or 20 years can be reasonably stated opinions, but to assume that for the rest of human civilization there won't be any reason for a tall building to be built in Philadelphia is quite crazy. In 100 years, I think it would be far less likely to see the CTC as the tallest building in Philadelphia than to see a supertall in Conshohocken.
City Hall was the tallest building in the world and has the record for longest tenure as the tallest building in the city. Since it lost that title in 87, it's fallen out of the TOP TEN. I doubt CTC will maintain it's title for nearly as long and, most certainly, won't hold it FOREVER.