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Originally Posted by fimiak
The floor count from that article is pure bullshit. Hruski pointed it out yesterday. Nobody is building a 10' ceiling height office space in downtown SF, because it becomes 9' with floors and would make for a tiny lobby. Transbay is 61 floors to 900', which is about 14.5'. That is the tall end, but not atypical for class A office space. I would guess this 850' building will have about 60-65 floors as well. The office space will be slightly taller, and the residential shorter, so the 50' extra that transbay tower has will be 50' saved on the residential portion of 50 first(making 50 first 850' and 60-65 floors mixed vs 900' TB with 60 floors for pure office).
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Actually I was thinking more like 12' floors for commercial and 9' for residential and hotel. The commercial floor plates would be much larger than the rest, thus having less floors; but all this is just guessing and a bit of a stretch. Sometimes we try to make sense of claims which don't seem to make sense, even though they may not be true.
Yes I do agree that the 85 floor figure could very well be incorrect, and 60-65floor range makes much more sense. I was thinking this to myself more likely the case yesterday before I started writing down other possibilities. I'd rather not speculate on this anymore, until we have better data. None of us seems to have the hard answers yet, and the 85 floor number seems rather suspicious right now. We also seem to be unclear about the roof and crown heights.