Hudson's Site Building Thread

**stasu1213** · April-13-18, 08:37 PM

Who idea was it to put steel beams into the ground in the first place

**Dexlin** · April-13-18, 10:13 PM

Originally Posted by stasu1213

Who idea was it to put steel beams into the ground in the first place

Huh? The "steel beams" were actually footings to allow something to be built on top of the site instead of having to retrofit it later. It was a smart move at the time. The only problem is that they never imagined when it was done that the site would have such high demand that someone would be proposing an 800-foot building above.

So this iteration of the garage was an unexpected failure to imagine something this large on the site.

**401don** · April-14-18, 07:19 AM

Originally Posted by Dexlin

Huh? The "steel beams" were actually footings to allow something to be built on top of the site instead of having to retrofit it later. It was a smart move at the time. The only problem is that they never imagined when it was done that the site would have such high demand that someone would be proposing an 800-foot building above.

So this iteration of the garage was an unexpected failure to imagine something this large on the site.

That's one way to look at it. They also never imagined there wouldn't be demand for even a 15-18 story building for 15 years.

**rbdetsport** · April-16-18, 05:12 PM

Originally Posted by 401don

That's one way to look at it. They also never imagined there wouldn't be demand for even a 15-18 story building for 15 years.

To be fair, the site has been tied up in DG's hands since November 2007 and he has promised something big on the site ever since as he waited for the demand to arrive. With that perspective, the site and garage were really only used for 6 years without demand for a 15-18 story building.