
From the Chronicle’s City Insider:
Experts say the Warriors’ planned 125-foot height is likely a minimum and not a maximum; after all, the Staples Center in Los Angeles is 150 feet tall.South Beach resident Lawrence Stokus who lives across the street from the Pier 30-32 site and who’s probably been quoted more than anyone so far among opponents offers up this one-liner:
Even the 125-foot height would be just 18 feet shorter than the bottom of the lower deck of the Bay Bridge as it stretches out from the city over the bay.
“It will look like the mother ship in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”