Quote Originally Posted by wolverine View Post
It would have not done well as a residential building. It was far too deep. Costs making structural adjustments to hollow out portions of the building would have well exceeded any return you'd get. Additionally new stairwells would have had to been created and many portions higher up would be unusable had the building gone residential. Imagine maintaining those useless spaces. Imagine the maintenance fees residents would pay on that place!

The building could only function as a commercial structure. It certainly could perform well as an office building once you remove all the non-structural partitions. Column spacing would have been a non-issue.
Care to eloborate on why you would need to hollow out portions of the building?