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SF Developers Seek Taller High-Rises Than Pyramid
12/22/06
cbs5.com
(AP) SAN FRANCISCO Developers want to build the nation's tallest buildings outside of New York and Chicago -- a pair of slender towers that would stand 350 feet higher than San Francisco's Transamerica Pyramid.
The plan, filed Friday with the San Francisco planning department, proposed a cluster of unusually thin high-rises spread across two acres near downtown.
The two towers would stand 1, 200 feet each and would be clustered with two 900-foot and one 600-foot structure.
By comparison, the city of San Francisco's tallest building, the Transamerica Pyramid, is 853 feet high.
The only buildings in the U.S. taller than the San Francisco proposal are the Sears Tower in Chicago and New York's Empire State Building.
Friday's filing was an application to start the environmental review process.
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