Quote Originally Posted by Bham1982 View Post
Correct. Renovating buildings is quite different from new construction, which requires different financing and skillsets.

And you could renovate a million buildings; doesn't mean an 80-floor building is a realistic project. At that height you have extreme construction costs, and elevator banks take up huge proportion of the highest floors, limiting rentable sf. There are many a half dozen outfits in the western world that could carry out such a project.
Nobody, except for the OP, ever said that the Hudson's tower was going to be 80 floors. The OP made a mistake when writing that. You're wasting your time using the 80 floor figure.