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Plans for the tallest building in the US are underway — and it isn’t in NYC
Nypost ^ | 01/23/2024 | Patrick Reilly

Posted on 01/24/2024 7:32:21 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Plans to build the tallest skyscraper in the United States are shaping up in an unlikely metropolis: Oklahoma City.

Developers at a real estate company are adjusting the already ambitious plans to construct the Boardwalk at Bricktown Tower by a few hundred feet to make the building reach 1,907 feet high — which would make it the tallest in the country, the Oklahoma City Free Press reported.

“The symbolic height honors the year that Oklahoma was admitted as the 46th state of the United States,” Matteson Capital said in a statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: building; nyc; oklahoma; oklahomacity; tallest; underway
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I've always admired tall buildings
1 posted on 01/24/2024 7:32:21 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just for reference, how tall is the average Oklahoma tornado?


2 posted on 01/24/2024 7:33:48 PM PST by FarCenter
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A super tall building in dead center of tornado alley.


3 posted on 01/24/2024 7:34:13 PM PST by LukeL
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Seems like a boondoggle in this day and age.

As far as tornadoes go, I’ve never seen one hit downtown OKC or Tulsa. Not sure if it’s dumb luck or something to do with the thermal aspects of all that concrete.


4 posted on 01/24/2024 7:39:14 PM PST by DarrellZero
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oklahoma has some pretty nice Art Deco office buildings.


5 posted on 01/24/2024 7:40:22 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oklahoma has some of the best basements in the country so people can live out tornado threats in style.


6 posted on 01/24/2024 7:41:43 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: ChicagoConservative27

7 posted on 01/24/2024 7:43:25 PM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: FarCenter

They go all the way to the sky.


8 posted on 01/24/2024 7:43:38 PM PST by samiam5
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To: LukeL

It will be constructed of tornado repellent material.


9 posted on 01/24/2024 7:45:21 PM PST by BipolarBob (My investment choice for 2024 is pre-ban menthol cigarettes. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“My fondest childhood memories are visiting all the tall buildings in Oklahoma.”

- Joe Biden


10 posted on 01/24/2024 7:46:08 PM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Commercial real estate is in a downward spiral and they’re building this?


11 posted on 01/24/2024 7:46:08 PM PST by jimwatx
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s not as if such a building would be a terrorist target or anything.


12 posted on 01/24/2024 7:47:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Whoops! Biologists just discovered a heretofore unknown species of spider, the Oklahoma Jumping Sand Snit. It’s habitat is very small, almost exactly the size and shape of the site on which this building is planned.


13 posted on 01/24/2024 7:47:43 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: FarCenter

Tornadoes can be anywhere from 1,500 feet to a mile tall.


14 posted on 01/24/2024 7:49:56 PM PST by Tom Tetroxide
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oklahoma City. Well known for frequent tornadoes.

As well as some occasional earthquakes.

So. Great place for the world’s tallest building.


15 posted on 01/24/2024 8:02:13 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Try to deal with them when the electricity goes out and the elevators stop working - especially if you’re even mildly disabled.

These aren’t built for real people to live and work in. They’re built for developers and architects.


16 posted on 01/24/2024 8:02:13 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DarrellZero

Norman is a suburb of OKC. The 2015 tornado did do minor damage in Oklahoma City.

FWIW


17 posted on 01/24/2024 8:04:31 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

For some reason Oklahoma City is a favorite target of terrorists.

The Murrah Building bombing. The OU Football game bombing.


18 posted on 01/24/2024 8:06:16 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Dumb.
Spend extra money for height in an area where land is cheap
You build high where land is expensive .


19 posted on 01/24/2024 8:06:26 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I am retired now, but I spent the last 26 years of my working
career based out of a 51 story building in downtown Atlanta.
Mornings, lunch time, and afternoons were a pain in the butt
riding the elevators, stopping on every floor,
or waiting for the next one because it was already full...

The executives were housed on the 51st floor
and had their own express elevator so they did not have to
experience what the regular folks had to put up with.


20 posted on 01/24/2024 8:06:35 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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