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View Poll Results: How big/small do the following metros feel?
ATL feels about its size 6 4.65%
ATL feels bigger 20 15.50%
ATL feels smaller 18 13.95%
DFW feels about its size 1 0.78%
DFW feels bigger 32 24.81%
DFW feels smaller 9 6.98%
Houston feels about its size 6 4.65%
Houston feels bigger 31 24.03%
Houston feels smaller 6 4.65%
Voters: 129. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 05-31-2011, 03:15 PM
 
Location: ITL (Houston)
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Funny thing is, MOST of that stuff isn't even in Dallas.
The City of Dallas thanks the rest of the Metroplex for upping its image.

 
Old 05-31-2011, 04:17 PM
 
Location: Atlanta
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Hmmm. According to your video 20 million visitors to Dallas a year.

According to this video 16 million visitors to the immeadiate area around Atlanta's Centennial park (a very compact area which includes GWCC, Ga Dome, Phillips Arena, CNN Center, World of Coke, Ga Aquarium, and Centennial Park.) yearly.

This does not include the rest of Downtown, Midtown with it's museums, etc., Buckhead, Stone Mountain, Six Flags, Turner Field, etc. etc.


YouTube - ‪Georgia World Congress Center‬‏


CNN Center/Cartoon Network

YouTube - ‪The CNN Studio Tour in Atlanta, GA‬‏

Ga Aquarium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MDlP9jd0_E

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Old 05-31-2011, 06:49 PM
 
Location: Underneath the Pecan Tree
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Hmmm. According to your video 20 million visitors to Dallas a year.

According to this video 16 million visitors to the immeadiate area around Atlanta's Centennial park (a very compact area which includes GWCC, Ga Dome, Phillips Arena, CNN Center, World of Coke, Ga Aquarium, and Centennial Park.) yearly.

This does not include the rest of Downtown, Midtown with it's museums, etc., Buckhead, Stone Mountain, Six Flags, Turner Field, etc. etc.
Actually, that 16 million you're coming up with is most likely just people visiting that area from around the city and not just visitors from outside of Atlanta alone.
 
Old 05-31-2011, 06:54 PM
 
Location: The City
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Actually, that 16 million you're coming up with is most likely just people visiting that area from around the city and not just visitors from outside of Atlanta alone.

Would assume that to be the case. I know the Jersey shore always touts over 50 million visitors a year but most are repeat visitors and many are double counted
 
Old 05-31-2011, 06:56 PM
 
Location: Underneath the Pecan Tree
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Would assume that to be the case. I know the Jersey shore always touts over 50 million visitors a year but most are repeat visitors and many are double counted
Exactly, Houston Galleria and Dallas Northpark Mall both attract over 25 million visitors, but that's mostly local visitors.
 
Old 05-31-2011, 09:23 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Exactly, Houston Galleria and Dallas Northpark Mall both attract over 25 million visitors, but that's mostly local visitors.
Wrong

Well-to-do Latin Americans frequently make vacations out of coming to Houston to shop at the internationally known Houston Galleria. They're some of the biggest spenders at the higher end boutiques your average Houstonians don't even shop at.
 
Old 05-31-2011, 09:43 PM
 
Location: roaming gnome
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Actually, that 16 million you're coming up with is most likely just people visiting that area from around the city and not just visitors from outside of Atlanta alone.
they are probably the daily people going down there getting chick fil a or zaxbys, i think afonega posted the stats to zaxbys they are really coming on strong. waffle house also serves tons of people and there is one on peach tree street that isn't too far, hard to turn off peach tree sometimes b/c traffic is backed up from the smell of jimmy dean sausage. It would be nearly twice the size of the World's Tallest Building, Burj Khalifa in Dubai or four times the size of the Empire State Building! Now that's a tall order! So you can imagine the amount of traffic and tourists down there. Can you imagine the face of a new yorker when they hear that stat? they know the empire state is tall but imagine that stack of sausages.
 
Old 05-31-2011, 09:49 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Wrong

Well-to-do Latin Americans frequently make vacations out of coming to Houston to shop at the internationally known Houston Galleria. They're some of the biggest spenders at the higher end boutiques your average Houstonians don't even shop at.
I'm not sure if you understood what he wrote. Or are you really saying that most of the visitors to the mall are from outside the area, or as you describe from another country?
 
Old 05-31-2011, 09:54 PM
 
Location: The City
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I'm not sure if you understood what he wrote. Or are you really saying that most of the visitors to the mall are from outside the area, or as you describe from another country?

Am pretty sure they fly in to go ice skating in a Mall

There is also a Tiffanys there

25 Million strong; must be the highest grossing Tiffanys in the world not to mention the highest grossing ice rink

Oddly it is the basically the same stores that exist in every other high end mall in America of any signifcance but there is the tallest building not in a DT close by and a few hotels; the mall does play a larger role in Houston than would in a typical city; but no Jimmy Dean sausage tower...
 
Old 05-31-2011, 10:00 PM
 
Location: The City
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Just saw the Thrashers are leaving the ATL; guess now only DFW has all 4 sports among these three
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