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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Just for reference, how tall is the average Oklahoma tornado?
A super tall building in dead center of tornado alley.
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.
Oklahoma has some pretty nice Art Deco office buildings.
Oklahoma has some of the best basements in the country so people can live out tornado threats in style.
They go all the way to the sky.
It will be constructed of tornado repellent material.
“My fondest childhood memories are visiting all the tall buildings in Oklahoma.”
- Joe Biden
Commercial real estate is in a downward spiral and they’re building this?
It’s not as if such a building would be a terrorist target or anything.
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.
Tornadoes can be anywhere from 1,500 feet to a mile tall.
Oklahoma City. Well known for frequent tornadoes.
As well as some occasional earthquakes.
So. Great place for the world’s tallest building.
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.
Norman is a suburb of OKC. The 2015 tornado did do minor damage in Oklahoma City.
FWIW
For some reason Oklahoma City is a favorite target of terrorists.
The Murrah Building bombing. The OU Football game bombing.
Dumb.
Spend extra money for height in an area where land is cheap
You build high where land is expensive .
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.
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