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Rench's new crib...
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:30 am
by Rench
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/ ... st-office/
While I'd love to say I'll just buy the thing outright, the starting bid is already way the hell out of my reach. 
I have, however, always been amazed with this building. Scenes from the Batman reboot have been shot there, if you take the Ike (290) into the city, it's like the gateway to downtown to pass under the thing. Gothic, massive, it just screams "The City of Big Shoulders." I love it. Whenever anyone is here and I actually have time to kill, I'll take you through it. Literally, the expressway runs THROUGH THE FRIKKING BUILDING.
I figure between the auction, the win, the jurisdictional hell developing it will fall into, and whatever else will go wrong, the first condos won't be on the market for minimum 10 years. I'm seriously saving pennies now.
Yes Ames, you can come visit when I own a piece of the Batman set.
ooh...dime in the chair cushion...
-Rench
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:43 am
by goose
dibs on the corner office....
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 1:58 pm
by SSCAM
I might be able to afford the opening bid, but I could never afford the taxes.
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 5:50 pm
by The Shifty Jesus
For a minute there I thought you bought an overpass.
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 6:07 pm
by Rench
Actually, moving in under it, you see...
-Rench
Re: Rench's new crib...
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 4:17 pm
by tucko
Rench wrote:
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/ ... st-office/
While I'd love to say I'll just buy the thing outright, the starting bid is already way the hell out of my reach.
I have, however, always been amazed with this building. Scenes from the Batman reboot have been shot there, if you take the Ike (290) into the city, it's like the gateway to downtown to pass under the thing. Gothic, massive, it just screams "The City of Big Shoulders." I love it. Whenever anyone is here and I actually have time to kill, I'll take you through it. Literally, the expressway runs THROUGH THE FRIKKING BUILDING.
I figure between the auction, the win, the jurisdictional hell developing it will fall into, and whatever else will go wrong, the first condos won't be on the market for minimum 10 years. I'm seriously saving pennies now.
Yes Ames, you can come visit when I own a piece of the Batman set.
ooh...dime in the chair cushion...
-Rench
Dude, you have NO soul. I'd love to come visit and relax under the trees. Oh, nevermind. Only a fucking robot would feel comfy there.
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 6:51 pm
by Rench
Honestly, it's just the unmedicated issues coming out. I am still dead on serious on a condo in that place, and slowly getting the wife to come around.
I'm just as serious and looking at a shorter timeline for 40+ acres in Wisconsin or Michigan, preferably wooded, where I can build my own log cabin for the cost of a few cases of beer, with a wood-burning stove as the only accomodation.
I could live in the woods forever, but I do love the city life occasionally. And, as above, that building always struck a chord with me. ::shrug::
-Rench
Re: Rench's new crib...
Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 3:39 am
by roadmissile
tucko wrote:Dude, you have NO soul. I'd love to come visit and relax under the trees. Oh, nevermind. Only a fucking robot would feel comfy there.
Boo, I resemble that remark.
I'd live there and love it, as long as I got to design the interiors myself.
/RM
Re: Rench's new crib...
Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 11:48 am
by tucko
roadmissile wrote:tucko wrote:Dude, you have NO soul. I'd love to come visit and relax under the trees. Oh, nevermind. Only a fucking robot would feel comfy there.
Boo, I resemble that remark.
I'd live there and love it, as long as I got to design the interiors myself.
/RM
Well, I guess we have different likes. I'd take the 40 acres in the woods in a heartbeat....Log cabin? I'm all over it like stink on shit..
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 1:25 am
by motorpsycho67
While I'd ultimately prefer the seclusion and privacy of a remote wooded location, I absolutely fucking love neo-Gothic architecture.
A neo-Gothic apartment is still an apartment, with all the noise that goes with it.
I said I want QUIET!
... and get off my fucking lawn.
Give me a Frank Lloyd Wright house in the woods that's not too far from the city.
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 2:46 am
by Sisyphus
I heard Falling Water is available soon. Would require relocation. You would, not the house.
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 3:48 am
by roadmissile
If you want to talk preference money is no object I'll do up I'll take the sexy pad downtown and a place out on the plains to boot, but really, that place has plenty of soul, it's not as if it's some modernist glass and steel monstrosity (although I'd live in one of those too).
/RM