Plans for the tallest building in the US are underway — and it isn’t in NYC

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By Patrick Reilly

Plans to build the tallest skyscraper in the United States are shaping up in an unlikely metropolis: Oklahoma City.

Developers at a real estate company are adjusting the already ambitious plans to construct the Boardwalk at Bricktown tower by a few hundred feet to make the building reach 1,907 feet high — which would make it the tallest in the country, the Oklahoma City Free Press reported.

“The symbolic height honors the year that Oklahoma was admitted as the 46th state of the United States,” Matteson Capital said in a statement.

The firm’s initial application had the tallest of the building’s four towers reaching 1,750 feet, which would have made it the second tallest building in the country behind Manhattan’s Freedom Tower.

Matteson Capital said Monday it intends to request a variance from the city’s zoning board to construct the mammoth project. If approved, the structure would be the fifth tallest in the world.

Plans for the structure consist of three towers, each about 345 feet tall, and a fourth tower jutting 1,907 feet into the sky, dominating Oklahoma City’s otherwise unremarkable skyline.

The mixed-use project spans 5 million square feet. Plans include 1,776 residential units, two Hyatt hotels, condos, and 110,000 square feet of space for commercial and community use.

The top floors of the supertall tower will have a  restaurant and bar as well as an observation deck, according to Matteson Capital.

However, city officials told Oklahoma City Free Press that company would need city officials to rezone the property instead of simply requesting a variance.

Oklahoma City, home to some 680,000 people at the 2020 census, is one of the fastest growing cities in America, jumping to the country’s 20th most populous city last year.