Trans National Place, also known as 115 Winthrop Square, was a proposed

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skyscraper in

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, US. Original designs were completed by architect

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(with Boston firm Childs Bertman Tseckares Inc.) who later left the project in March 2007. Trans National Place was intended to stand as the

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in Boston, Massachusetts, and

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, surpassing the 60-story

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by 15 stories and at least to become the tallest building in the city. The developer was local businessman Steve Belkin, who also owns an adjoining mid-rise building, which would have been torn down as part of the project. The tower was cancelled in 2008 amid a declining commercial real estate market and after the

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objected to the building's proposed height, deeming the structure a possible flight obstruction to the air traffic of nearby

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. The project was superseded by the

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, a proposed skyscraper for which a design was selected in 2016.

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Entry on Skyscraperpage.com

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