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While admittedly that is a solution in specific scenarios the likelihood of that being installed for the sole purpose of powering the exterior lighting has a almost a zero chance. 1. Cloudy or rainy days won’t sufficiently charge the batteries to power the system. 2. The size of the system would likely not be large enough to supply all the energy required. 3. Grid power is more stable and consistent so that will be the preferred choice for such a high profile element of the building. 4. There is a lot more systems in place than just batteries to get the electricity from the panels to the exterior lighting.

At night? Haha! Reminds me of an 80’s song, I wear my solar panels at night. So I can. So I can... this was mostly in jest, FYI.

Solar Panels for a building this size are a joke. They only are used to contribute to LEED points but offer no real energy contribution to the grid. Its more of an advertisement for green energy or to satisfy the greenie beanies.

Wow! Half the building on the back looks into a parking deck...I hope crescent has a Cracker Jack leasing team. I thought they were going to abut the deck with single loaded office until they got above the deck. That would have gotten the building a lot taller too.

But that large rectangular lawn would make a killer ice rink, just like Rockerfeller in the winter.

It even has a dome. CLT loves domes! https://images.app.goo.gl/eojUoYWUGuc9uNX6A

I know they had a rig out there doing test drills. Now that there is no more parking allowed presumably they can bore the rest of the column and elevator locations to determine foundation barring depths. Or dig a big hole to hide coal ash, hehehe.

Catchy tune

Foundation would take a month or two. If they have underground parking then several months to many months.

Those are city processes. The county processes issue permits for construction. Once the city stuff is approved the county stuff can be concurrent but without city approval the permit office won’t issue the approved permits which the contractor needs for construction to start legitimately. If there are changes at the city level you have to revise the drawings at the county level. Also you will see a job trailer or two on site and the site fenced off before construction too. Owners are also way too optimistic.

There’s monetary inflation then there is construction inflation. Materials cost more, subs cost more, contractor costs more. Its compounded inflation. When gas hit record highs everyone adjusted for added fuel cost of shipping. Nice Precast parking in 2008 was 12k per space. Today the same deck would have been 18k per space. Underground also carries a higher premium if you go classified vs unclassified meaning the sub holds his cost regardless of finding rock or unsuitable soils. That can be a large premium for risk management.

The city could invest in parking garages that entice development since they could lease those spaces instead of building their own and the city would make profits just like they do on the deck at the airport. Where oh were could they build them?

Those spaces could be as high as 50,000 a space underground. Blasting rock is expensive. Building below the water table is expensive. Building buildings over parking is expensive. Longer schedule means more general conditions costs. Most office tenants have time lines to get into a tower so schedule alone could kill the deal. Without knowing what was going to be on top you can’t plan for increased structural members where you need them and you can just make everywhere capable of supporting anything. It’s not a bad idea just doesn’t lend itself to being flexible with investment and optionality as you might think it does. Being flexible with a large site keeps you from being back into a corner with no exit strategy. One thing is certain. Developers don’t build more spaces than necessary as demanded by the market place. If the tenant request X spaces to sign the deal then that is what is provided. Otherwise a developer can get the same rent with less investment costs by building less parking and make a higher rate of return.

DEC 2 is banking on the existing deck spaces on graham street. The 1000 spaces is code minimum requirement for a 1 million sf office building. Code minimum does not provide enough spaces for all the employees in an office tower. As one of the last surface lots existing uptown future towers will now require to put all required parking for both code and market driven rates all on site. This will lead to taller towers with parking podiums. Too much granite under ground for sub grade parking.

Keep keep it out of Fort Mill! Build in Rock hill and let development fill in between the two cities over time.

Looks like up lights for the exterior lighting.

Sorry can’t sleep, overdosing on allergy meds. I’ll shut up, for now.

Blast from the past. Guess that’s why it was called the Xbox. MS campus Seattle Someone already beat beat me to the asterisks too! Copenhagen.

No not taller. Same floor area per floor and same lease depth. Adding a little more skin though aka perimeter. Just moving the boxes around. Its a fat X not a skinny x, thinking that is why you said boutique. I stand by 5-10%

The web link I sent shows how it would connect to the Manchester park in rock hill. That is a good move to link those together. Maybe they can join this site somehow to the Carolina thread trail system.

Saw an article in the CO paper today that showed a plan of the rock hill panthers site. Can find a link yet. Link below . Picture shows more than paper printed. https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article229575034.html

Do one real quick with a glass panel that matches the color of the glass. Should look better I think. Too many colors up there. The band makes it look shorter than it really is.

Looks like a jokers crown to me. Who will have the last laugh?

I highly doubt your construction estimating abilities. 40%!? The true metric would be a floor area to skin area ratio calculation. And the skin is only a small % of total construction costs. The meat and potatoes are in what you don’t even see, the foundations, structure and MEP. Changing the office tower footprint would be a 5-10% bump at most!

Seeing it from this view I’d take the split bar design and twist it and make an X creating a courtyards in the crutches along the rail trail and South end will have an X marks the spot from an airplane view. Would help break up the repetition.