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Originally Posted by Syndic
As soon as you said "Forest City" it all clicked and came rushing back to me. I remember this design now. It's astounding how similar the Trammel Crow result looks to the Forest City proposal, though. I wonder what that means for Block 185? Maybe it really will be relatively short.
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I remember the Forest City design, too, but I only remember seeing those small watercolor-ish renderings. I don't even remember seeing that other big photo that Kevin found that looks more like a model. Must be the vodka.
Anyway, from a post in that other thread that Kevin posted back in 2008:
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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas
At least one of the buildings is said to be 725 feet. That would be 42 feet taller than The Austonian. Another proposed project though would be 95 to 105 feet taller than this building. Either way, Austin is jumping into the big leagues finally.
http://www.statesman.com/news/conten...0619green.html
The Trammell Crow proposal
The team's plan includes buildings as high as 725 feet that would house:
265 apartments 500 condos
235 senior assisted living units
588,000 square feet of office space
160,000 square feet of retail
A 375-room hotel
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I'm assuming that was supposed to be Block 1 where North Shore is going up, but still.......