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[NYguy]

Another look at the massing...




From that model, and the description of the first tower to be built, it looks like the 2 tallest commercial towers are possibly designed, while the rest look like massing model placeholders.

Related is focusing its planning on starting a 1.4 million-square-foot building on the southeast corner of the rail yards
that would have up to 1 million square feet of office space, topped with 25 floors of apartments, according to Mr. Cross.

This 800-foot-plus tower would sit on firm ground, while the rest of the site requires an expensive roof to first be built over the tracks.

[Tony73]

Originally Posted by NYguy

Another look at the massing...




From that model, and the description of the first tower to be built, it looks like the 2 tallest commercial towers are possibly designed, while the rest look like massing model placeholders.

Good news, NYguy
But this new model is different from the first old illustration.



What is the potential height of the taller tower, 1100 or 1200 ft?

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by Tony73

Good news, NYguy
But this new model is different from the first old illustration.

Exactly.

What is the potential height of the taller tower, 1100 or 1200 ft?

I don't know how tall the tallest of those towers will be, but I've given the estimates of the other towers.

[NYguy]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/busines...0DgumApI8HWFGL

A Crain's report yesterday spelled out the challenges Related Cos. faces in getting its massive Hudson Yards project off the ground -- including the possibility that profits could be long in coming even if everything falls into place for CEO Stephen Ross, who built Time Warner Center.

But the key word, which appeared but once among the article's 700-odd words, was "Coach" -- the leatherwear maker that's considering making the rail yards site its headquarters and is now in talks to take up to 600,000 square feet of offices.

Those talks were first reported in this column last Nov. 30. We wrote that the two sides were trading proposals and options for each of the site's three planned towers.

There's a veil of secrecy over negotiations. But if a deal were to be struck with Coach, we'll predict it would get the first tower built at one corner of Hudson Yards or another -- obstacles be damned.

While financial firms could have qualms about going west of 10th Avenue, Coach has long been based on far-west 33rd and 34th streets, and a switch to a new tower home would require little more than a stroll down the block.