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With a hotel deal signed, a contractor on board, with 150 or so purchasers committed with deposits, and with engineering and architectural schematics proceeding, the evidence overwhelmingly points to a condo tower soon to be built on this site. History shows that more developers build buildings for profit than build them to set height records. And economics demands that only an idiot would walk away from a project just because it has to be modified to suit the market demand. Meeting market demand is what developers do. Far from being an idiot, Tony is extremely bright. This project could conceivably wind up being a smaller than currently planned, but some version of it will get built--otherwise Tony and his team would be walking away from a pile of profit. Every project ever built had a start date announced. Virtually every project built had some construction delays. The choice is to positive or negative when those things happen. So it seems quite unwarranted, IMO, to predict the whole thing will fall through when all the ingredients are there for a project to get built, merely because of typical delays. At this point we certainly have more reasons to believe the boosters than the pessimists.

Thanks for the insider information Sean! VERY VERY COOL STUFF. Congrats to your team as well for what must have been a great deal of work. The building looks awesome! How long will the wind load tests take? Is that being done in Huntsville, or Tullahoma, or someplace else? Seems like years ago I heard of an engineer & architect team that used some of the aerospace industry's wind tunnels when they were working on a building. They put a scale model in a facility normally used for engineering aircraft to test how the wind would flow around a building. Anyway, very cool work. Thanks again for the great info... OH YEAH-- Really glad you checked in at UP and gave some cool info. Here's another question for you. As far as you know now, will the Signature Tower have one or two cranes at the jobsite, and do you know what type they will be? Hope to see more posts from you soon!

Beautiful work, Charles. Congratulations on a job well done. It looks BEAUTIFUL!!! I especially like the view from I-65 looking North...

CONGRATULATIONS TONY--GREAT NEWS, AWESOME WORK!!! AND CONGRATULATIONS AS WELL TO EVERYONE ON THE MDHA BOARD FOR THEIR CONTINUED SUPPORT OF DEVELOPERS THAT KNOW HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF MARKET OPPORTUNITIES THAT ARE GOOD FOR OUR GREAT CITY.