06-19-2017, 06:41 AM
(06-19-2017, 06:03 AM)Canard Wrote: Yeah, I kind of went "...oh" when I snapped it, seeing as how wrongly I remembered what this area looked like!
It’s an interesting bit of land. At first glance there isn’t space for much of anything, but when you take into account how much earth is moved to build a tall tower, it’s actually perfectly useable. Do you happen to know what the actual drop-off in elevation is? I mean, how many floors below grade could you have at Courtland that would be above grade at the tracks? I’m guessing about 2 because the tracks go under the bridge but it’s hard to estimate this sort of thing from a picture. I also remember reading a home remodeling book years ago in which the author suggested that if a homeowner said their property dropped off a few feet towards the back it was probably more like a few stories.