Oops, your tower will be 21 stories shorter!
Usually when a Hub developer makes a “mistake,’’ it has the beneficial result of adding a few floors to the top of his tower.
I just remember the late Les Marino. The Big Dig construction magnate apparently got a little carried away with the construction of his green glassed Independence Wharf office high-rise. So much, so, in fact that it mysteriously wound up a couple floors higher than was allowed under the permit issued by state regulators.
There was a great outcry from the local activist set over the whole thing, but you can rest assured no one was going to force Marino to tear off the top of the tower.
But in Las Vegas, the developers are apparently not as shrewd as they here in Boston.
MGM Mirage and Dubia World are having top off at a relatively measly 28 stories what was to have been a 49-story, iconic hotel.
No, they didn’t run out of money trying to make Foster + Partners stylish vision a reality. Rather, the reinforcing steel that goes inside the concrete was incorrectly installed in 15 floors of the tower.
The mistake means that the 200 or so luxury apartments that were to have topped the posh hotel tower off will now get the axe.
Well, on second thought, maybe that’s not so bad given the current real estate market.
But then there’s just the sheer humiliation of it.
A pair of competing hotels, including a 61-story tower designed by Cesar Pelli, will tower over the suddenly much shorter than planned Harmon hotel.