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Originally Posted by Azul
After years of lurking these forums, talks of a supertall finally pushed me to make an account.
With the natural cyclical lull in construction and financing expected to dip around 2018-2020, I'm fairly hesitant that this would get going. Developers tend to only take risks (like this supertall) when the iron is hot in the market and I'm afraid it may be too cool to make this happen soon.
That being said a lot of arrows point to this happening, it's just odd timing in my mind.
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I would agree with you if it was a "spec building", but IF Facebook is already involved (and i would imagine involved for quite a while up to now) then I would imagine that FB would care more about their needs than Austin's cycles, and I'm pretty sure they wouldn't sweat financing either. Big IF, I know, but Facebook has big plans for their future, and Austin is shaping up to be a MUCH different town in 10 years, with the Med school, Apple expansion, Oracle, Merck, among others. FB increasing their presence (towering over the GOOGLE building) makes good sense to me.
Welcome Blue!
I too lurked from the early days of the forum. Now it is one of my favorite sites on the net.
Cheers.