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Neither is Denver. Do you mind going back to post #3 in this thread to make your comments about excluded cities... instead of skipping over various posts and looking for Toronto as expected?
Actually I thought it was ill mannered to constantly insult posters.
It was in response to him calling a poster slow.I could care less what you think but there is no excuse for rudeness and name calling.
If you gonna do it then you deserve to get it done to you.
I would think you would not support that type of childish behavior,but maybe I was incorrect to think that it mattered to you.
Er, okay if you say so but there's nothing wrong imo with DT LA now.
The wholesale districts: please dont tamper with that. I love that area but more importantly the merchandise. Nowhere outside of NYC even comes close anywhere in the US.
I came down there 2 weeks ago for bulk fabric and other sewing things. A yard of fabric that costs $12 a yard in the Bay can be had for $2 a yard in DT LA and when your buying hundreds of yards, it's worth it to travel 375 miles.
Totally agree. DTLA was always vital, just not in a way tourists desire. But other downtowns aside from NY don't have wholesale districts like that. Unfortunately, manufacturing will probably never revitalize to the level that it's protected from the transformation. Eventually even American Apparel will move out, I think.
So raise that $25 cocktail in a cheer. We have a downtown that can compete for ANY tourist dollar, and there's fewer poor brown people. What did this building used to be, anyway?
I voted for LA because I know with just the stuff happening now and over the next two years it will be very transformative. But other places could be the same and I'm just not as familiar. But I think that DTLA severely lagged in the urban renaissance and is catching up this decade.
In the end, is this really a contest about which city has the most skyscrapers added or is this a thread about which city will see the most downtown transformation? For me, these are really two very different discussions.
Not all of those are downtown though. Also, it's about more than just highrise construction. Denver, Chicago, and LA all have multiple non highrise projects going up as well. What that poster said about the number of highrises was wrong though.
DC, Tyson's corner is supposed to rival Seattle's CBD.
Downtown-specific, not the metro area.
But I agree that DTDC is on the up and up, especially with CityCenterDC coming online and the upcoming Golden Triangle BID and Trump's hotel empire moving expanding into DC via the Old Post Office Pavilion by 2016. I'm surprised DC doesn't have more votes than it currently has now.
the planned transformation of Tysons Corner into what, on its own, is expected to be the United States' seventh largest downtown in 2030, eclipsing Seattle and Houston.
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Downtown-specific, not the metro area.
But I agree that DTDC is on the up and up, especially with CityCenterDC coming online and the upcoming Golden Triangle BID and Trump's hotel empire moving expanding into DC via the Old Post Office Pavilion by 2016. I'm surprised DC doesn't have more votes than it currently has now.
Not all of those are downtown though. Also, it's about more than just highrise construction. Denver, Chicago, and LA all have multiple non highrise projects going up as well. What that poster said about the number of highrises was wrong though.
At least half of them are downtown. So let's say 60 or 70 of them are downtown. And then there are over 200 high rise also proposed.. And again at least half of them are downtown.
As for the non high rise projects, there are dozens upon dozens that are under construction and proposed downtown.
Under construction/expansion alone:
-Waterfront development (largest urban project in North America)
-Replacing all the Streetcars (over 200 of them).
-A $1 billion Union Station expansion.
-Various new neighborhoods planned and under construction.
-Go Transit expansion
-etc.
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