 
Tkelly1986
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Username: Tkelly1986
Post Number: 313
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 - 3:21 pm: |    |
I heard a while ago that the footings at one kennedy were laid to hold more then 10 floors. Can anyone confirm this? Not that it needs to, but say in the future, could more floors be added? |
Danindc
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Username: Danindc
Post Number: 2682
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 - 3:23 pm: | |
If you have existing structural drawings available, I can confirm it for you.
Now, let's all get SPECULATING on something we know nothing about!!! |
Lmichigan
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Username: Lmichigan
Post Number: 5654
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 - 3:23 pm: | |
I'd never heard that one, before. Perhaps you're thinking about the Hudson Block, or the Hudson Block speculation led to this rumor?
(Message edited by lmichigan on June 18, 2007) |
Tkelly1986
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Username: Tkelly1986
Post Number: 314
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 - 4:37 pm: | |
Well, I am only the messenger and the person who relayed this information on to me may have been confused; that is why I asked, because I was questioning it. |
Spiritofdetroit
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Username: Spiritofdetroit
Post Number: 508
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 - 5:54 pm: | |
well, 2 whole floors are in use, so I definitely think we should add about 100 more to it... |
Charlottepaul
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Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 1137
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 - 6:52 pm: | |
Footings may be able to hold more as the parking deck below grade was there a while before the building on top was, but it might require removing the new tenish floors of the building and starting over, from the footings up. Something not very likely to happen for at least 50 years. |
Burnsie
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Username: Burnsie
Post Number: 1041
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 - 7:12 pm: | |
Even if the footings could take on more weight, that wouldn't necessarily mean that all or any parts of the columns and girders could handle it. The strength of the bottom-most elements (footings) isn't the only thing to consider. |
Charlottepaul
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Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 1140
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 - 7:14 pm: | |
exactly. |
Rbdetsport
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Username: Rbdetsport
Post Number: 284
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 - 11:35 pm: | |
Actually, if One Kennedy Square was say, 45 stories. It would look a whole lot better. Someone did a very good photoshop of what the skyline would look like if the tower was anoth 35 stories tall at urbanplanet. |
Focusonthed
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Username: Focusonthed
Post Number: 1052
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 - 11:40 pm: | |
I don't think so. It would throw off the scale of C-M. |
Psip
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Username: Psip
Post Number: 1924
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 - 1:12 am: | |
I still think this is the original plan for the building.
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