City Club Apartments. Taking place of Stalter Hotel

[3WC]

EBW: What do you mean by "cheap wood construction?"

Wood construction is economically viable for structures as high as 6 or 7 floors. Higher than that require steel/concrete, much more costly than conventional wood built, and probable would make the development uneconomic.

Well built wooden structures last for many years, often more than a 100 years.

I'll bet your home is wood [[stick built) although it may have a brick exterior.

[Eber Brock Ward]

EBW: What do you mean by "cheap wood construction?"

Wood construction is economically viable for structures as high as 6 or 7 floors. Higher than that require steel/concrete, much more costly than conventional wood built, and probable would make the development uneconomic.

Well built wooden structures last for many years, often more than a 100 years.

I'll bet your home is wood [[stick built) although it may have a brick exterior.

It's a way for developers to max out what they could build on the cheap. Statler site deserves more, IMO, which would cost more, but developer either doesn't have the means or desire to do something more substantial steel or concret. Fine, their block, their right, but my right to complain too.

BTW, you lose your bet. My home was built in 1910 and is triple brick masonry.

[mwilbert]

EBW: What do you mean by "cheap wood construction?"

Wood construction is economically viable for structures as high as 6 or 7 floors. Higher than that require steel/concrete, much more costly than conventional wood built, and probable would make the development uneconomic.

Actually no longer true.
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/20...ld-plyscrapers

Or, if you want dubious proposals unlikely ever to be built:

http://therealdeal.com/2016/04/17/ei...ise-in-london/

but in any case you can build taller wood structures than traditional.