Phil, I get what you are saying, and I am not calling you a liar. I am saying that the concept of repair of a 40 yr old building in what appears to be generally decent shape, to those who walk though it, costing as much as tearing said building down, hauling off massive amts of rubble, arch designing, engineering, bidding, building, commissioning, etc a new building is preposterous. That is saying nothing about temp staging for airlines to continue functions during construction.
The consultants, at best are not including some pretty major costs of the new building in their numbers, imo. Even if they are only looking at construction and ignoring design, demo, etc, I would still call bullshit on this.
It has to be apples and oranges.