But when youre looking, you cant really tell the difference of 25 ft can you?

But when youre looking, you cant really tell the difference of 25 ft can you?

Honestly, I wanted a building in which I could say "at least we have a 1000-foot tower"!!! : ;) We was supposed to get a tower that was supposed to be the largest skyscraper between NYC and Chicago, but that never happened (but better looking than the one that's going to be built, if I might add, just look a few pages back), but it would be a blessing if we had a 1000-footer!!!!

This is exciting news! You guys are lucky to be able to watch it go up.

But when youre looking, you cant really tell the difference of 25 ft can you?

No you can't but why lie?

Nice pics VZ... I really like the new grayish refelective window tints on the new mockup they had. i dont think philly has another building of this stature w/ this color scheme.... should be interesting....

I took this earlier this evening. The site is quite well lit at night. Scaring off the vagrants? Keeping the rats away? So the developers can find it from space at night?
Why ask why?

http://www.pbase.com/image/48085829.jpg

i don't know if i mentioned before, but they are making an old city 205. if you look at the exterior of old city 108, i think it expands on the exterior. it looks very unique. i'm pretty sure the site is oldcity205.com, but yeh, check it out and lets.....discuss it! also, what the hell is the national at old city supposed to look like? i know its like 5 buildings, are they basically just making a neighborhood? check it!

How shortsighted and reactionary. When they built the Sears Tower in Chicago, it was not in what anyone would call a business center. Sears deliberately built it away from the main business center so development would expand to the western part of the Loop.
You can't just react to where everyone else does business, you build where it is right for you.


So you want the beautifull Philly skyline to look like Atlanta Phoenix or DC?
Very spread, cold and lacking planning?

Just build huge structures with a black screen door for the entrance?

Better yet, how about building 4 750 foot towers around your house, on every side.

No green spaces, parks, monuments in your future Philly?

Re: Comcast: I heard this AM that the building below street level will take until the end of the year, then we should start to see the steel rise above the street---for about 1 year of construction...there will be 2 tower cranes.


Has anyone heard anything abot any of the other residential tower projects in Philadelphia? Or commercial towers, besides Cira II?

... but they are making an old city 205. if you look at the exterior of old city 108, i think it expands on the exterior.

Yes, I agree, the condos look like little pods that jet out from the building.
very cool. Actually one of the best looking buildings, I think in the city.
Your right the website is www.oldcity205.com. This will really anchor 2nd street. Not crazy about the National look, but your right they are making green common areas between the buildings. I went to see the model units, to expensive for me, and they have only a handful left so somebody has the money to buy them. But it really will be a nice community feel when the
National is finished. They have townhouses and the three new mid-rises.

I saw this on the SSP, and it's a rendering of what is supposed to be Nashville, TN tallest building, the Signature Tower. It's 800+ feet tall, and mostly residential. Heres the website: http://signaturetowernashville.com. If Miami and Atlanta can have 1000-footers, why can't Philly??? We need to make a petition to make Philly have a 1000-foter, before we get surpassed by......Nashville????????????

Miami does not have a 1,000 foot tower.

And if you want to petition for taller buildings to go up in Philadelphia, lobby City Council and Mayor Street to take a serious stab at the reduction of the BPT and city wage tax that drove so many tax-paying companies out of town. When they start coming in the way they have in other cities with less oppressive tax burdens, we may all get our wish.

VZ, your right & now is the time to make changes in our tax structure. I hope w/ the future revenue generated from slots/ casino's we can offset some of these business taxes which will allow more corporations to move in....

someone said before in response to another person expressing their dismay that a W hotel would not be coming to philly, that it was not the worst thing to happen. yes, philadelphia most likely needs more hotel rooms, but it doesn't mean it has to be like every where else. sidebar: if the city continues to prosper, chains will naturally want to come here and benefit. anyway... when phillyskyline said ^ the lower taxes may allow more corporations to move in, i think that's great and all, but i also think we should look more at small businesses and unique ventures that entruepenieurusures (its a hard word) can bring to street level. that's what gets me more excited about the possible decline of the city wage tax: making an affordable city like philadelphia, that doesn't have nearly the amount of taxes of comparable metropoli, even more affordable for its residents.

o, and i also don't understand the obsession with getting a skyscraper above 1000 feet. do you get a commission or does it just get you excited? i mean, most people like the design and the extra 25ft will do nothing for us on the ground. i don't necessarily think building tall is overrated, but in this case, the already tall building is....well, tall enough. what are you thinking now?

It's a hypothetical barrier.

The reasoning, according to the legions of Phillyheads at SSP, is that for a city this size, already with tall buildings nearly reaching that height, it seems strange to have buildings so close and not hit the mark.

Atlanta really stings, of course.

I believe if you have big corporations move into skyscrapers, they will bring in small businesses in at the street level, not vice versa.... Being that we're on Skyscraper City website, skyscrapers w/ height is of the essence to most people in this forum. A 1,000 footer does move a city into architectural elite status. For the 2nd largest city on the East coast, a region of 6 million metro we should have been there - done that...

i suppose ur right about the skyscrapers being what everybody likes. i guess i'm more of a planning type person. i don't necessarily believe things have to be super high (altho for more efficiency , more things in the city should be built upward), but for them to have good city planning, architecture, etc. that's just my piece

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