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Re:A 1700-ton telco building that was relocated while runnin... by azernik on Monday February 19, 2018 @07:05AM (#16412360)
Here's an even more wild example - the city of Chicago was too low to the water, causing sanitation problems. So they moved the whole city, one building at a time... about six feet straight up. With the technology of 1850-65. While most of the buildings in question were in use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago

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Re:A 1700-ton telco building that was relocated while runnin... by jimktrains2 on Monday February 19, 2018 @07:39AM (#16412491)
Infrastructure projects of old fascinate me. I can't imagine this being done today. Same with things like the El, NYC subways, and the Eisenhower interstate system: the amount of overhead these projects would encounter (for both better and worse) would be prohibitive.
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Re:A 1700-ton telco building that was relocated while runnin... by Camillo on Monday February 19, 2018 @10:54PM (#16417731)
The classic "if we could put a man on the moon, why can't we put a man on the moon" situation.
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