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I think the odds that this gets built are slim to none--the economics won't make sense, because the property values in OKC don't warrant it. The only way it cou
by yowzadave 3y ago
I think the odds that this gets built are slim to none--the economics won't make sense, because the property values in OKC don't warrant it. The only way it could happen is if the owner wanted to do it as a vanity project, and was willing to lose a lot of money.
Anybody can make a drawing of a supertall building. It takes a lot to go from a rendering to actually building it.
- coldcode 3y agoHudson Yards in NYC makes sense on paper for that size/density of a city, yet it's a financial failure. Something like this building in OKC makes zero sense to even start.
- InitialLastName 3y agoEven Hudson Yards only made sense because they could use zoning shenanigans (drawing lines to put it in the same district as Central Park and a very poor area of Harlem [0]) to get state funding for it as an "economically troubled area". [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-12/the-visa-program-that-helped-pay-for-hudson-yards https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-12/the-visa-...
- CapitalistCartr 3y agoAny building above about seventy some floors gets taller by ego, not financial value.
- dylan604 3y ago>slim to none "and slim just left town" if you want to keep to the Western motif