Is America’s tallest skyscraper coming for tornado country?
A businessman with an ‘opaque background’ wants to defy the critics and build the 120-storey Legends Tower as a symbol of Oklahoma City’s renaissance Scot Matteson is planning to build the 120-storey Legends Tower in Oklahoma City, a controversial proposal that has been met with skepticism and criticism from Manhattan. The city will decide next week whether to allow Matteson to build his 1,907ft block, a reference to 1907, the year that Oklahoma voted to join the union and become the 46th state. The height of the tower is considered a significant landmark in history.
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It is a proposal that has confused residents, baffled politicians and drawn derision from Manhattan, America’s capital of skyscrapers. Indeed, many question the wisdom of building the country’s tallest tower in a state that is famed for tornadoes.
However, Scot Matteson is determined to defy the doubters and erect his 120-storey Legends Tower in the heart of Oklahoma City, on a plot presently used as a car park.
Next week the city will decide whether to let Matteson build his 1,907ft (581m) block, its height a reference to 1907, the year that Oklahoma voted to join the union and become the 46th state.
“There are a lot of naysayers and a lot of jealousy,” Matteson said. “But there are also a lot of people behind
विषय: Tornadoes