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LOl I love how when people are comparing the city of Houston to another city they always have to add two or more other cities to it just to come close.
Bellevue Washington's Tallest:
Bellevue Tower 2: 43 floors - 450 ft.
One Lincoln Tower: 43 floors - 450 ft.
Bellevue Towers 1: 42 floors - 430 ft.
Eddie Bauer at Lincoln Square: 28 floors - 412 ft.
City Center East: 26 floors - 360 ft.
City Center Bellevue: 27 floors - 358 ft.
Uptown Houston's Tallest:
Williams (Transco) Tower: 64 floors - 901 ft.
San Felipe Plaza: 45 floors - 625 ft.
Marathon Oil Tower: 41 floors - 562 ft.
Four Leaf Towers l: 40 floors - 444 ft.
Four Leaf Towers ll: 40 floors - 444 ft.
1330 Post Oak: 30 floors - 420 ft.
a simple "i disagree" would've sufficed... i'll give you a few reasons for my opinion; uptown houston is spread over a much wider area, bellevue is also on the water/mountain backdrop, etc. ut h has 3 taller buildings.
Bellevue Tower 2: 43 floors - 450 ft.
One Lincoln Tower: 43 floors - 450 ft.
Bellevue Towers 1: 42 floors - 430 ft.
Eddie Bauer at Lincoln Square: 28 floors - 412 ft.
City Center East: 26 floors - 360 ft.
City Center Bellevue: 27 floors - 358 ft.
Uptown Houston's Tallest:
Williams (Transco) Tower: 64 floors - 901 ft.
San Felipe Plaza: 45 floors - 625 ft.
Marathon Oil Tower: 41 floors - 562 ft.
Four Leaf Towers l: 40 floors - 444 ft.
Four Leaf Towers ll: 40 floors - 444 ft.
1330 Post Oak: 30 floors - 420 ft.
See where I'm going here?
But but but if you multiply by Tacoma and divide my Walla Walla and you factor in the University of Puget Sound you get...
lol you don't have to tell me. Nothing in and around Seattle is on par with Houston's size.
LOl I love how when people are comparing the city of Houston to another city they always have to add two or more other cities to it just to come close.
tacoma and bellevue are clearly metro seattle; houston is an anomaly in that it covers such a wide area of land it has swallowed practically all of its edge cities.
ya'll have a chip on your shoulder or something? geez.
But but but if you multiply by Tacoma and divide my Walla Walla and you factor in the University of Puget Sound you get...
lol you don't have to tell me. Nothing in and around Seattle is on par with Houston's size.
big city feel my butt cheeks
...again, houston covers a much larger portion of its metro's land area than average. tacoma is ~30mi from Seattle, and bellevue ~10, both very clearly in the same metro.
the thread title was probably not worded as well as it could've been in the first place; urbanity=/= "big city feel." houston is clearly larger and likely feels that way, but Seattle is clearly more urban. interestingly, both have about 40 million square feet of office space in their downtown skylines.
it shouldn't be considered an insult to compare the two places - i'm not trying to bring my own town into the mix, but i think many of the same comparisons could be drawn between it and seattle.
One thing that really sets Downtown Seattle apart from many cities its size or larger is the Downtown vibrancy. Downtown is still THE retail hub for the entire Pugent Sound region. The flagship Nordstrom, the regional flagship Macy's (former Bon Marche), several vertical malls, several huge tourist generators like Pike Place Market and the cruise ship terminal, tens of thousands of Downtown residents, etc.
The Seattle metro never "over-malled" their suburbs like so many other places (including my own), and this probably has a lot to do with the way things are. Ironically, Downtown Bellevue has grown up around the regions main retail competitor to Downtown, Bellevue Square Mall.
yeah I have been saying from the start that the title was deceiving.
From my 1st post I said Seattle was more urban, but far from feeling bigger.drive downtown smith towards midtown then turn right from midtown unto estheimer and drive from there to The Beltway and come back and tell me which city feels bigger.
You will pass up multiple skylines alone the way and it will take you a good 45 minutes to do it. And all in the same city.
why are you all comparing 3 cities to one.
You keep saying all are in the same metro but you keep comparing all of them to just downtown Houston.
How about comparing the three To Downtown, Uptown, Midtown, Medical Center, Greenway Plaza, The beltway area, Katy, the Woodlands, etc. It is the same metro.
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