1. And in many cities stations will have to build new towers to hold the new, digital antennas. 2. Beyond the new residential towers and the baseball stadium, the downtown is starting to attract the kinds of businesses that make cities attractive, Lambert said. 3. A significant amount of pre-leasing will be required for a developer to get financing for a new tower downtown. 4. But many communities have adopted zoning rules that make building new towers very difficult. 5. But it is not monstrously out of scale with the parade of new towers that have arisen on Broadway in recent years. 6. But the basic capacity problem is more difficult, because it takes time to build the new towers, or cellular sites, that are needed. 7. But whatever the final number of new towers turns out to be, broadcast executives know the sheer national scope of the task will be daunting. 8. Cellular phone companies can use the information to determine the optimal spots for new towers, problematic in hilly countries like Colombia or Ecuador. 9. Demand for new towers is likely to be particularly heavy in the fast-growing western sections of Palm Beach County. 10. Designed by Kohn Pederson Fox, the new tower will be the latest element of a building boom that has swept through Times Square. |