AndreaPalladio
Senior Member
Do you realize how much proposals cost? Did you take into account all the costs of lawyers, planners, architects just to bring this "fishing expedition" to city hall? If you added all these costs, you would agree that no company would ever bring jokes like this to city hall unless they were truly planning on building them. Obviously, they may be pushing the boundaries a tad, but I'm sure they've taken that into account and with a few minor cosmetic/massing modifications, the core structure is actually the one they are aiming to construct.
Yes. Yes. No. No. Surely they are paying a lot of money. To get what they want. Which is most likely to find out the maximum they are allowed to build. In any negotiation, you ask for more than you actually want. Once they know what they can build, they will design it, propose it and, Mark Carney willing, sell it and build it.