By Debra Kamin | New York Times
New York City could soon lose its claim to the tallest building in the United States.
The Oklahoma City Council on Tuesday gave the green light to plans for a tower that will rise nearly 2,000 feet in Oklahoma’s capital city, dethroning One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan as the nation’s highest.
The California architecture studio AO and the developer Matteson Capital originally proposed Legends Tower, a sleek structure that will house at least one hotel and more than 1,000 luxury apartments, at 1,750 feet — just shy of One World Trade Center’s 1,776 feet. But earlier this year, they revised their plans and asked the City Council to approve a zoning change that would remove all height restrictions on the site, allowing them to build the tower up to 1,907 feet.
