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Which cities do you feel are most taking off right now/have been recently in terms of revitalization efforts? Not necessarily the ones experiencing the most numerical/objective growth, but ones that are making a complete 180 turn regarding a revival of their cityscapes, particularly with downtown development, urbanity, and vibrancy.
Seattle in 2010 was a "tweener" city center between the Philly/Boston group and the rest. In 2018 everyone's game has risen, but ours has risen the most. Others have housing booms (ours is 30,000 new units with a mile or so of the CBD) but no peer city has our 15,000,000 sf of new offices. We're starting to challenge the big NE urban city centers in mass, albeit not in urban cohesion yet.
Cincinnati? Lots of redevelopment going on, and supposedly the population has increased slightly after decades of population loss. Not sure if the population has actually increased here, but the city definitely feels like it’s on the upswing.
Seattle's population also grew the most of any major central city percentagewise from 4/1/10 to 7/1/17 per census estimates. The same will be true for 7/1/18 because we've continued a beserk pace.
Seattle in 2010 was a "tweener" city center between the Philly/Boston group and the rest. In 2018 everyone's game has risen, but ours has risen the most. Others have housing booms (ours is 30,000 new units with a mile or so of the CBD) but no peer city has our 15,000,000 sf of new offices. We're starting to challenge the big NE urban city centers in mass, albeit not in urban cohesion yet.
Seattle still only has about 60% the density of either Boston or Philly, for comparison Boston has about 60% the Density of NYC. This is glaringly obvious in neighborhoods adjacent to the CBD whereas Dudley, Andrews, Bellingham, Maverick or Kenmore squares or Uphams, Coolidge Corner have 3-5 story buildings on a streetwall Seattles neighborhood centers all have 1 story shops, the West end of Seattle is a great example of this.
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