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Originally Posted by zedaref
Site plan popped-up for Block 1, which is the NW corner of Cesar Chavez and San Antonio and is listed as residential on redevelopment graphics, on the City's FTP Server.
Height is listed as 404' to the mechanical and 38 floors.
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That 404 foot height is on the 2nd Street side. The sea level elevation on 2nd Street is higher than the elevation on Cesar Chavez. The Cesar Chavez side of the property is 10 feet 9 inches lower. So standing on the Cesar Chavez side of the development, the tower appears to be nearly 11 feet taller than the 2nd Street side.
The woman I talked to with Gensler, the architect of the tower, told me that Block 1 would be 413 feet tall to the mechanical penthouse roof and 389 feet to the main roof with 38 floors. She said the Cesar Chavez side would have a higher height.
So using these elevations, the tower's height really should be 414 feet 9 inches tall. And rounding that up, you get 415 feet.
Also the elevation of the Green Water site slopes downward even more as you move west closer to Shoal Creek. The Block 185 residential tower in Green immediately to the west of Block 1 will actually have an extra floor because the elevation is lower. That tower will have 39 floors.