America's tallest skyscraper, Legends Tower, to be built in Oklahoma City as construction gets green light to begin in just two months - after last-minute design change
Oklahoma City's Legends Tower is expected to be 1,907 feet tall The city's Planning Commission has given approval to the project. Critics have raised concerns about the building's resilience to storms
America's tallest skyscraper, expected to reach a height of 1,907 feet, is about to be inaugurated in June in an unlikely location: Oklahoma City.
Proposed by developer Scot Matteson, the Legends Tower should exceed the heights of One World Trade Center in New York. and Chicago's Willis Tower.
The Oklahoma City Planning Commission has granted approval for the project, which will see the dazzling tower rise next to a railroad track, near a U-Haul storage facility in Bricktown.
'We think it would be iconic,' Matteson, a California-based developer, said in a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal.
Matteson's team made a last-minute change, choosing to raise the tower to a height of 1,907 feet instead of the original 1,750 feet planned.
America's tallest skyscraper, expected to reach a height of 1,907 feet, is about to be inaugurated in June in an unlikely location: Oklahoma City.
Proposed by developer Scot Matteson, the Legends Tower should exceed the heights of One World Trade Center in New York. and Chicago's Willis Tower.
The Oklahoma City Planning Commission has granted approval for the project, which will see the dazzling tower rise next to a railroad track, near a U-Haul storage facility in Bricktown.
'We think it would be iconic,' Matteson, a California-based developer, said in a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal.
Matteson's team made a last-minute change, choosing to raise the tower to a height of 1,907 feet instead of the original 1,750 feet planned.
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