Tallest US skyscraper under construction — But it isn't in NYC

Plans set afoot to build the tallest skyscraper in the United States probably in the city of Oklahoma which will be the world's fifth-highest building.

As reported by the Oklahoma City Free Press, developers at a real estate corporation are modifying their already ambitious plans to raise the Boardwalk at Bricktown Tower to a height of 1,907 feet, making it the tallest skyscraper in the US, according to New York Post.

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

With the highest of the building's four towers reaching 1,750 feet in the firm's initial proposal, it would have been the second-tallest structure in the nation, only surpassed by Manhattan's Freedom Tower.

Matteson Capital announced on Monday that it plans to ask the city's zoning board for a variance so that the massive project can be built. The building would be the fifth tallest in the world if permitted.

The building's plans call for three towers, each rising to a height of roughly 345 feet, and a fourth tower that will soar 1,907 feet above Oklahoma City's generally nondescript cityscape.

Five million square feet make up the mixed-use complex. 110,000 square feet of commercial and communal use space, two Hyatt hotels, and 1,776 residential units are all part of the plans.

According to Matteson Capital, the supertall tower's top floors will have an observation deck, a restaurant and a bar.

Instead of merely asking for a variance, city authorities informed the Oklahoma City Free Press that the corporation would have to rezone the land.

Oklahoma City, which had 680,000 residents as of the 2020 census, is one of the American cities with the greatest rates of growth. It jumped to the 20th most populated city in the US last year.