unimaginative2
Senior Member
I've looked at the site in person. I'm aware that it could involve eliminating a small portion of one level of that condo's underground garage. So what? Eliminate it. Replace the twenty spaces or whatever on another part of the site. Problem solved, and for less than $10 million rather than the hundreds of millions required for tunnelling.
I cannot possibly see how you can think that a garage extension on which nothing is built would have anything to do with the structural integrity of a condo built on another part of the site. Buildings are supported through pilings going straight down, not horizontally.
Like I said, even if the building is somehow (and completely inexplicably) cantilevered over that section of the parking garage, even buying and demolishing the entire building (which, to reiterate, is almost certainly not necessary) would cost a tiny fraction of the cost of tunnelling the entire route. You guys are so desperate to find reasons that things can't be done that you completely miss the big picture: it's preposterous to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build a massive tunnel in order to avoid one building.
I cannot possibly see how you can think that a garage extension on which nothing is built would have anything to do with the structural integrity of a condo built on another part of the site. Buildings are supported through pilings going straight down, not horizontally.
Like I said, even if the building is somehow (and completely inexplicably) cantilevered over that section of the parking garage, even buying and demolishing the entire building (which, to reiterate, is almost certainly not necessary) would cost a tiny fraction of the cost of tunnelling the entire route. You guys are so desperate to find reasons that things can't be done that you completely miss the big picture: it's preposterous to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build a massive tunnel in order to avoid one building.