Plans are underway to build America's tallest skyscraper, and it's coming to an unlikely city.
In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, population According to the U.S. Census Bureau, that number is just under 700,000. Roughly one-twelfth the population of New York City lives here, but developers are using the location to try to usurp the Big Apple's title as home to the nation's largest buildings.
Real estate firm Matteson Capital wants to submit a request to increase the tower's originally planned height of 1,750 feet to a whopping 1,907 feet – a nod to the year Oklahoma gained statehood. report Kron 4.
“This symbolic height honors the year Oklahoma was admitted as the 46th state of the United States,” said Matteson Capital. statement obtained by oklahoma city free press.
A California-based developer looking to dethrone Manhattan's One World Trade Center as America's tallest building is working with the Oklahoma City Economic Development Alliance to make it happen in the Bricktown neighborhood. are doing.
The project will span 5 million square feet and feature 1,776 residential units, two Hyatt hotels, condominiums, and 110,000 square feet of commercial and community space.
Developers also said the top floor will include a restaurant, bar and observation deck.
Matheson Capital plans to add a 22-story hotel, two 23-story residential towers, and more restaurants and shops.
If the main tower's ambitious height is approved, the structure will be the world's tallest building after Dubai's Burj Khalifa, Malaysia's Merdeka 118, China's Shanghai Tower, Saudi Arabia's Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower and Ping An International Finance. It will be the 6th tallest building. The center is also from China.
of new york post The proposed tower is dominate Oklahoma City's “otherwise unremarkable skyline.”
