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.
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Skyscrapers are beautiful, but most of them proposed never got built. In Hartford, in the early 1990s, a developer proposed the tallest brick building in the world. They torn down an art deco office building, but never built it. Now it is used as a parking lot.
More architectual penis envy, that’s all it is; some architect and their developer wanting to be able to say “nah nah nah nah, mine is bigger than yours”. Its all very stupid.
Are you referring to steel infused with the element “unobtainium.”
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