So, I emailed the folks at thebroadwaysanantonio.com yesterday for the building heights and floor count info.
I got a reply back today from Mike Reddell with the Ironwood Marketing Group. They of course are the company that is marketing The Broadway.
Here's a San Antonio Business Journal article that mentions them:
Koontz McCombs taps Dallas firm to lead marketing efforts for The Broadway
http://wichita.bizjournals.com/wichi...4/daily14.html
From Mike's email to me:
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Originally Posted by Mike Reddell
Kevin:
Please see answers to your questions about The Broadway in red.
Thanks for your interest. I have enjoyed Emporis for some time.
Kindest regards,
Mike Reddell
President
Ironwood Marketing Group
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Originally Posted by Mike Reddell
We will have 21 “floors” since we don’t have a 13th “floor.” The reality is that there are 20 floors, we just refer to them as levels. Confusing?
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Basically what this means is that if you stood there and counted the floors, you would see 20 actual floors. But because of the tradition of skipping the 13th floor for superstitious reasons, once they reach the 13th floor, they skip it. So instead of it reading "13" on the elevator, it's actually labeled as the 14th floor. So what would be the 20th floor ends up being counted as the 21st. Make sense? So the building should be listed as having 20 floors.
Here are the heights.
278 feet, 7 inches to the top of the mechanical penthouse parapet. This is the highest point on the building and would be the official height of it.
260 feet, 11 inches to the main roof parapet.
240 feet, 5 inches is the height of the 20th and highest floor. So standing on the 20th floor looking out the window, you'd be 240 feet, 11 inches above the street.