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went past there this weekend and sort of thought I would see a crane being assembled- but I was wrong. They are getting up pretty high without a fixed crane. I do wonder why.
Maybe we're on the cusp of a building revolution. No tower crane required.
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Maybe we're on the cusp of a building revolution. No tower crane required.
The crane on the side now is very quickly reaching its max capacity in height. It needs to be capable of dropping in the rebar on the southern side and it can barely do that now so its only a matter of time.

Someone said earlier that the cost of the large crane rental is extremely high so I guess it isn't too surprising that they use this crane since it works up to a certain point. Longer than any of us would have thought.

Funny how we all love seeing cranes in the sky so much. Ha.
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The crane on the side now is very quickly reaching its max capacity in height. It needs to be capable of dropping in the rebar on the southern side and it can barely do that now so its only a matter of time.

Someone said earlier that the cost of the large crane rental is extremely high so I guess it isn't too surprising that they use this crane since it works up to a certain point. Longer than any of us would have thought.

Funny how we all love seeing cranes in the sky so much. Ha.
Yeah. Seeing a tower crane means it's time for some serious business.
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Old Posted Apr 25, 2015, 3:28 PM
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They still have the patch of plants on the corner where the shorter tower (the mirror of Suburban Station) was supposed to go. Although I kind of like the way that corner looks without a building.

I think we can count a third tower out for now considering the TW flop. Who knows though. They have $45B burning a whole in their pocket. Maybe we'll see them with a third Netflix or T-Mobile tower someday soon.
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While I'm not a fan of the company Comcast, it sure would be awesome if they built a third large skyscraper in Philly!
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While I'm not a fan of the company Comcast, it sure would be awesome if they built a third large skyscraper in Philly!
Don't count it out just yet! It might take a little longer, but I don't think the failed merger will have any impact on Comcast. They'll just look for other avenues in which to grow, which is probably best long-term. In fact, I think I'd like Comcast a lot more if they were a diverse technologies company rather than a massively immobile telecom monster.
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Don't count it out just yet! It might take a little longer, but I don't think the failed merger will have any impact on Comcast. They'll just look for other avenues in which to grow, which is probably best long-term. In fact, I think I'd like Comcast a lot more if they were a diverse technologies company rather than a massively immobile telecom monster.
If Im not mistaken they indicated a successful merger was going to have minimal impact on local headcount. I dont think a 3rd tower has anything to do with the merger.
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Don't count it out just yet! It might take a little longer, but I don't think the failed merger will have any impact on Comcast. They'll just look for other avenues in which to grow, which is probably best long-term. In fact, I think I'd like Comcast a lot more if they were a diverse technologies company rather than a massively immobile telecom monster.
Agreed 100%. Could be a blessing in disguise. Spend that $45billion they were going to on TWC on companies and technologies that have a longterm future (cable doesn't). The cable business landscape is going to be dramatically different in 10-20 years - become a positive, innovative power player in the dot com universe, and not just as a nagging net neutrality tick on the back of progress.
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Agreed 100%. Could be a blessing in disguise. Spend that $45billion they were going to on TWC on companies and technologies that have a longterm future (cable doesn't). The cable business landscape is going to be dramatically different in 10-20 years - become a positive, innovative power player in the dot com universe, and not just as a nagging net neutrality tick on the back of progress.
Your preaching to the choir! I have a feeling that's exactly where they're headed. I think they wanted TW just for the added customers. But I also think that successfully merging two beasts would have proved a lot more troublesome than they could have imagined. Not to say they couldn't have done it, but it would have taken a lot of resources away from the new tech areas they want to get into.

Right now everyone's looking to Google, Apple, fiber, and mobile services as cable's primary potential competitors, but no one's thinking of yet-to-be-invented data access avenues. Can you imagine what truly wireless unlimited data would do to all of the above? If Comcast wants to keep being a top ISP, they could be looking at ways to make TW's provisions irrelevant rather than just buying their customers. Give customers in TW's market a reason to want Comcast.

Who knows, maybe that's exactly what they're doing. If they could figure out a way to beam all their content straight from the Dark Tower without cables, towers, and thousands of technicians, they'd do to cable and fiber what the internet did to newspapers. What's the saying, something like every thirty years a new tech comes along that revolutionizes the way we live? We're overdue.
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If Im not mistaken they indicated a successful merger was going to have minimal impact on local headcount. I dont think a 3rd tower has anything to do with the merger.
Yeah. The only way it impacted Comcast and TW were the consultants that were working on the integration. And a lot of them are shifting into other rolls. It didn't really effect the companies' bottom lines.

No one's scrambling. It's more like, "well, now what?" If I were on top I'd have about $45B worth of ideas
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Love this photo showing 1 concrete pump feeding the other concrete pump. It's really time to bring the crane and high power pumps.
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