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[quote=Minnehahapolitan;1861102]/\Shhh....once people figure out there is a difference between the number of condos built, and the number of condos that are lived in Miami's market is toast.
You could say the same thing for New York in many of its new condo buildings.
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Originally Posted by Billiam
miami, no Doubt! it is having the 2nd most construction of skyscrapers on earth after Dubai!
Chicago, Atlanta, and New York are also having Huge construction booms
The others true, but you can't say all of NYC for now, just Manhattan and Jersey City across the Hudson. That is for now because Brooklyn is about to explode in its downtown, talking downtown's only.
Brooklyn as part of NYC has its own downtown, NYC actually being a group of counties (borroughs) that merged to form NYC, one like Brooklyn (Kings County) has its own downtown separate from Manhattan which is the one everyone seems to think is the only downtown with the whole borrough of Manhattan as the focal point which is true and referred to as "The City" even to those who live in the other borroughs of the same NYC. Confusing, odd, and misleading.
The others true, but you can't say all of NYC for now, just Manhattan and Jersey City across the Hudson. That is for now because Brooklyn is about to explode in its downtown, talking downtown's only.
Queens has high rise projects too though! And many other parts do too! I think you should know this, assuming you're a New York Resident ?
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Originally Posted by StuyTownRefugee
Brooklyn as part of NYC has its own downtown, NYC actually being a group of counties (borroughs) that merged to form NYC, one like Brooklyn (Kings County) has its own downtown separate from Manhattan which is the one everyone seems to think is the only downtown with the whole borrough of Manhattan as the focal point which is true and referred to as "The City" even to those who live in the other borroughs of the same NYC. Confusing, odd, and misleading.
Miami, Chicago and NYC are the big 3 right now. I am very jealous of Chicago with their 3new supertalls (even though the spire is an abomination of epic proportions). Miami and San Diego are both struggling with a collapsed, over-saturated market, so we will have to see how that turns out. Vegas is also building like crazy on the strip and in the downtown area. In fact all of the major metros on the west coast are going through booms at the moment, with the possible exception of Phoenix.
One city not many people have probably heard of that is going through a big downtown boom is Bellevue, WA. It is a "suburb" of Seattle, although it is quickly becoming a city in it's own right. It is still has a very suburban character, but is rapidly densifying and going taller.
Here are some recent pictures, none are my own, all taken from skyscrapercity.com. The amount of tower downtown has essentially doubled, all within the last 5 years. There are still numerous projects in the planning and approval phases as well:
Hey wait a minute, thats not Washington, there is sun shining in those pictures!
j/k of course
Looks like some nice new developments poppin up there.
And Id also disagree that the Spire is an "abomination". Its different, thats for sure, but not an abomination. An abomination is that proposed Vegas supertall. *shudders* Ugh.
Too bad developers here in Scranton aren't building any high-rise mixed-use projects to cater to the unmet demand we have for downtown loft living. There is an old silk mill in a far-flung city neighborhood that was converted into offices and loft apartments (called ironically The Lofts at the Mill), and those sold out like hot cakes, indicating that there is a STRONG demand here for urban lofts. I'd love to see my city's struggles with urban sprawl start to halt.
I'm hoping this nationwide trend of people reinvesting in core communities starts to hit PA soon before we become one giant suburb of NYC!
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