Cities with a second "downtown" (mortgages, townhouse)
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If in Atlanta, Midtown is too attached to Downtown (yes they are next to one another only separated by Lindon Avenue and the sudden appearance of numbered east/ west streets, starting with 3rd Street with North Avenue being "1st Street" and Ponce de Leon Avenue being "2nd Street") than how about our uptown Buckhead district. Especially along Peachtree between Piedmont and Lenox Square, it looks and acts like a second downtown with highrise office buildings and tons of shopping (really MUCH more shopping than Downtown these days with Lenox Square and Phipps Plaza cater cornered across Peachtree from one another with their six department stores and hundreds of boutiques) Others call it an "edge city", but being within the City of Atlanta I am uncertain if it would meet the criteria for an "edge city" in the true sense like Perimeter Center and Cumberland/ Galleria in the North Atlanta suburbs, but NOT inside the Atlanta City limits.
I consider Buckhead to be a car-choked area, seemed to be --I don't know, not walkable city area, not suburban, what the hell is it, everyone driving around ! hated Atlanta area, Marietta,
Koreatown (I think it is the largest with many highrises, businesses, great transit, nightlife, dense pop)
Hollywood (Hollywood studios are still in the area but scattered, but area is mostly tourism/hospitality focused)
Beverly Hills
West Hollywood
Long Beach
Pasadena
Glendale
Westwood
Santa Monica
These three are major employment centers but are not urban at all.
Century City (actually this is the most suburban office park of all)
Woodland Hills Warner Center (suburban office park)
El Segundo/LAX (suburban office park)
NYC is the most obvious, with Manhattan's two CBDs and downtown Brooklyn, but there are other cities with secondary employment centers that effectively amount to second downtowns. A secondary downtown should be urban in nature. Suburban-style office parks are not secondary downtowns. Extensions of downtown, that is to say, areas that are relatively contiguous with the universally accepted downtown (like Boston's Back Bay) don't count.
LA: Hollywood is definitely a second downtown.
Pittsburgh: Oakland is a second downtown.
I'm sure other cities have a secondary downtown.
Ummm, not sure if this point has already been made, but I don't know if I'd say Hollywood is exactly a "second downtown" for Los Angeles. Hollywood is more like a very large city neighborhood with a really popular main business district. A lot of jobs and tourists in Hollywood for sure, but it's no second downtown. LA's second downtown is without a doubt Century City. It's among the largest employment centers in the city outside of downtown and has the only other considerable skyline besides downtown's.
Century City is to LA what Midtown is to Atlanta: they're both Downtown Part 2. Not to mention, in both examples, the second downtown is way cleaner than the main one.
Ummm, not sure if this point has already been made, but I don't know if I'd say Hollywood is exactly a "second downtown" for Los Angeles. Hollywood is more like a very large city neighborhood with a really popular main business district. A lot of jobs and tourists in Hollywood for sure, but it's no second downtown. LA's second downtown is without a doubt Century City. It's among the largest employment centers in the city outside of downtown and has the only other considerable skyline besides downtown's.
Century City is to LA what Midtown is to Atlanta: they're both Downtown Part 2. Not to mention, in both examples, the second downtown is way cleaner than the main one.
My issue with calling Midtown Atlanta a second Downtown is there is no neighborhood between Midtown and Downtown, so its more of an extension than a second center.
Compared to say Houston with has Downtown then 2 not-CBD neighborhoods than Uptown.
My issue with calling Midtown Atlanta a second Downtown is there is no neighborhood between Midtown and Downtown, so its more of an extension than a second center.
Compared to say Houston with has Downtown then 2 not-CBD neighborhoods than Uptown.
I suppose it would depend on who you ask. In my opinion, Midtown Atlanta, being over 8 miles away from Downtown Atlanta doesn't quite deem it an "extension" of downtown. But I'm also from the Bay Area, where Downtown Oakland is about that same distance from Downtown San Francisco, and in that regard, there's a world of difference within an 8 mile range.
I suppose it would depend on who you ask. In my opinion, Midtown Atlanta, being over 8 miles away from Downtown Atlanta doesn't quite deem it an "extension" of downtown. But I'm also from the Bay Area, where Downtown Oakland is about that same distance from Downtown San Francisco, and in that regard, there's a world of difference within an 8 mile range.
Midtown is 1.25 miles from 5 points which is on the SW side of Downtown.
I suppose it would depend on who you ask. In my opinion, Midtown Atlanta, being over 8 miles away from Downtown Atlanta doesn't quite deem it an "extension" of downtown. But I'm also from the Bay Area, where Downtown Oakland is about that same distance from Downtown San Francisco, and in that regard, there's a world of difference within an 8 mile range.
I was wrong then. My bad. I thought Buckhead and Midtown were the same thing. I often get the two mixed up largely because I confuse their skylines. Now I know.
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