Which major city do you think has the most room for improvement? (living, best)

[JJG]

Fort Worth


Why?:


- Has probably the weakest public transportation for a major city in the U.S.
- Good downtown area, but is very heavy on just one neighborhood in downtown. Too many surface lots and not enough expanding to make ALL of downtown as lively as Sundance Square.
- Typical Sunbelt core
- Potential for a GREAT core with several good ideas on the table and in development.....BUT, it's slow as hell getting them to come to life.
- (not that big a deal to some on this forum, but) Small skyline for a city its size.
- PLENTY of land just within the city limits to build. Some is happening, but again, it's slow.
- Seemingly not great at promoting itself on a national level.

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by Caesarstl

What the heck is this arrogant BS? Rebuild huh?

Whats up with YOUR arrogant BS?

an you read? THEY said it not me, so how am I arrogant? Follow the thread instead of going off on people ignorantly:

Originally Posted by KodeBlue

Baltimore. It has the bones, but it needs a lot of renovation, restoration, and destroying and rebuilding.

Originally Posted by KodeBlue

What are YOU gloating over? You are the one who said.

I am going to be arrogant now sine y'all pushed me.

Baltimore missed the boat on becoming a world class city. If it did not become one when it was one of the top 5 cities in the country and a leader in many things what makes you think reworking that city would do any good now.

Lets face it Baltimore is old news and cities like Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles has long usurped it. Tie a ribbon around it and it won't make a difference.

Now I like Baltimore, just saying that it already missed the boat.

New Orleans was on the fast track like Baltimore, but you an pump zillions into that place now it won't catch up to Atlanta, Miami, Houston or DFW, let alone come anywhere near world class cities like NY.

Baltimore, STL, Cleveland, Cinci, et all missed the same boat.

From the old stock of cities, Boston and Philly are the only ones not too tardy to make the boat. but the OP wants the cities that have the tools but most to improve and I don't see Boston and Philly having that much to improve to be world class

[CoffeeAndBeer]

Baltimore! - proximate eastern coastal location with solid old school urban bones, some fixed rail transit already in place, etc etc. insane potential.

[GatsbyGatz]

Los Angeles.

Not that it's a bad city, but I believe it has the potential, fame, and recognition to become one of the finest cities in the world. As it is today, it's a wonderfully strange place that is still in the early process of evolving and developing. In another century, I can see LA becoming a London or Paris.

[Natural510]

The OP stated "World-Class" potential, so I agree on Philly. Detroit, Cleveland & Baltimore all have the frames & histories of being major cities, but if/when they reinvent themselves it will be on a smaller scale.

[cali3448893]

Cinci used to be a old industrial conservative town known for its racism, but now most are liberal inside the city limits, upscale shopping is booming at the moment, the city has put in billions of dollars to build lofts, condos downtown which fill right up, currently building our first casino, building restaurants and retail downtown which now you can actualy see people walking up and down the streets, we are currently building are first streetcar system since a century...so much more to say about the city i was forced to move in 5 years ago

[cali3448893]

Originally Posted by GatsbyGatz

Los Angeles.

Not that it's a bad city, but I believe it has the potential, fame, and recognition to become one of the finest cities in the world. As it is today, it's a wonderfully strange place that is still in the early process of evolving and developing. In another century, I can see LA becoming a London or Paris.

The city already is, i used to travel a lot and everywhere i went mostly south korea, china...ect. they all said how wonderful los angeles is and how its known for its movies and its famous people.

[goofy328]

Virginia Beach. It has as much land of any major city but is entirely too spread out. Needs some entertainment issues as well ...

[goofy328]

Originally Posted by kcmo

Pittsburgh seems to be doing great compared to the others. They are really bouncing back.

Cincy is really getting things going along the riverfront with some nice projects and the new tower, but I'm not sure how much actual organic gentrification is going on there.

Philly might have a lot of blight, but center city and the area around the colleges etc seem to be thriving and I was surely impressed with the areas of the city to the north of city center as I have recently spent a lot of time in those areas.

St Louis still has a problem downtown for some reason, but there is still a lot going on there, especially outside of the central business district. Washington Ave in StL is nice, but much of downtown StL needs to be redeveloped and built up.

I think St Louis is the one that really could be a drastic change if they ever get their act together and downtown becomes the place to be, but they have had so much time to get things done and it's like so little happens there east of the central west end.

Cleveland has loads of potential too, but seems pretty stagnant right now despite some new development on the other side of the flats. So I just don't see Cleveland really doing a lot in the next ten years, hope I'm wrong.

I think Baltimore is going to be the next comeback city that everybody will be talking about in ten years.

Problems in Cleveland are rather complex. They've done pretty good though, better than expected.

[Amercity]

Detroit has a huge potential to become a great city. Plenty of empty land, layout of a major city, big city amneties and quite a history.

Also Cleveland, St.Louis, Philiadelphia and Newark