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Old Posted Jun 7, 2012, 7:59 AM
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Originally Posted by JSsocal View Post
Fortunately, (correct me if I'm wrong), it looks like the building directly facing grand central will stay.
The entire block (it's a square block) will be cleared to make way for this development.


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Also, the argument that we are just losing these one or two buildings shouldn't be looked at in this local scale.
I won't even entertain that argument. If you ever walked the streets of Manhattan, more often than not, the blocks you see will resemble this:


writemeg




But this discussion is leaning too much towards preservation, that issue is here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=178173


While a better understanding of what is happening is shown here...
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=197082
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