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Originally Posted by Chicago Shawn
^Interesting, staged move-ins are planned to occur here as well. What is this talk about office space in this tower? Is this support space for the hotel or has some leasable office space found its way into the tower. If so, this building really is going to be a marvel of a mixed-use skyscraper: Condos, apartments, hotel, office, retail +pedway, parking, and a rooftop park all contained into a little more than an acre of land. This project would consume a whole sqaure mile of land, if all the space and usages were built in typical sprawling suburbia.
Plus, lowering the ceiling heights reduces the amount of material used in the structure overall. This reduces manufactoring need and assocated embodied energy for additional concrete and rebar, as well as transport of those materials to the site, thus improving sustainability durring the construction phase of the project.
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As for the office space, it's either purely support space for the other uses in
the tower, or "office" space, as in the Heritage's reported "office" space - in that case 2nd or was it 2nd and 3rd floor retail that never really drew retail tenants, so more suitable users were deemed to be doctor, dentist offices, or other very small 'office-type' tenants - there isn't any Class A office space here, per se...