Yonder, towards the bottom:Somewhere on this board there's an image of an old newspaper article with a picture of the original 950?-foot Norwest/WF Center design.
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Yonder, towards the bottom:Somewhere on this board there's an image of an old newspaper article with a picture of the original 950?-foot Norwest/WF Center design.
The floor plates for the tower are small so I think your hunch is good. 25 stories for the office, 25 for the hotel, and 30 for the residential. Something in that ball park. Really three fairly modest proposals packed (or stacked!) into one building.Separate question, directly related to the question of height & potential demand for new office space: Does anyone have an idea of just how much office space Duval is proposing here? My gut would tell me it isn't very much (like probably under 250k sf), and that the building would be mainly residential/hotel.
I certainty hope it doesn't get rejected because of this. IDS is a great building, but it doesn't deserve that kind of respect.Maybe. Depends on the reasoning. If it doesn't get selected out of respect for the IDS, I'll be first on the roof.
Philly's downtown has some nice tall buildings since they lifted the height limit. Mellon Bank tower is my favorite in Philly.Philadelphia had this same weird "can't build height than" respect garbage. It has long been shot down and they have added many tall towers. And their still adding. It's done a lot for the city and brought a lot of revenue to downtown. Minneapolis needs to take lessons and how to build a tall building higher than 792'
Wouldn't they have to move the towers from IDS to a new tallest ? Maybe have twin mast's, such as the ones on top of Sears( Willis), or John Hancock in Chicago.I would think some radio stations would want to be involved in some way. This being the tallest building you would think there would be some broadcast towers on the top.
It was such a Minnesotan read. Very much a, "Hey, shouldn't we be looking at these more modest proposals?"70 surface lots dt? i guess someone counted. that's pathetic. I like his take on all of this.
http://www.startribune.com/local/minnea ... page=1&c=y
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