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Originally Posted by BTinSF
Hah! IF Mr. Wang can get the financing (big if), the main reason I think this could actually get built as pictured is because it is NOT in San Francisco. Over here, the planners and "neighborhood activists" and other NIMBYs would eat it alive. It would end being redesigned by Heller-Manus as a beige precast refrigerator with bay windows (and be no more than 450 ft tall).  |
I wouldn't get your hopes up yet for Oakland either. The "process" there can be just as crazy and cumbersome as SF, just in slightly different ways. This thing is a looooooong way from approval. The article says is "could take another year to receive entitlements" - that seems extremely optomistic to me for such a tall building. Two years, minimum, and hopefully the project isn't watered down too much.