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Chicago has had 227 buildings built since 2000 that are 12 stories or taller, with another 24 currently under construction, 5 with site-prep underway and 56 in various stages of planning (obviously all of them won't get off the ground).
I'm more excited about the low and mid-rise developments going up all around the north and northwest sides. Milwaukee ave is suddenly booming right now, with 20 projects for low to mid-rise construction. About 1,500 apartments going up along a 2-mile strech of that road on the northwest side as well as 250,000sf of retail.
I agree with you. Cities are attracting people at all age groups. The demand is there to fill these buildings in every city. Yes, some cities are growing faster than others so they can absorb more housing, however, most major cities across the country have enough demand to fill these new buildings going up.
People keep thinking the demand to live in cities is some fade, but it's actually a cultural shift back to the norm. Suburbanization was a failed experiment that has caused so many problems in this country, it will take years to correct it all. The shift has begun though and even suburbs are going urban like cities.
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I don't think we should be tearing each other down in this thread. We should be happy for cities around the nation that are building and admire the built environment in each of these cities. D.C. is not a skyscraper city but we do have buildings in the 20-40 story range under construction outside city limits.
A bunch of really major projects ongoing around the USA, are listed on the following thread. (Sorry, that the really cool pictures that were on there, at some point got deleted - which sucks).
current construction: 29 skyscrapers (200m+) out of which 11 are supertalls.
proposed/approved: 37 skyscrapers out of which 15 are supertalls.
Its hard to count buildings with 10 floors or higher since there are so many, but the pace is roughly 1 new building per day or roughly 300-350 buildings per year of 10+ floors.
are the two sort of parallel to 432 (or whatever it is) going to be taller than it
Driving up the NJ turnpike this week that building looks so tll and slender - there will really make a difference to have more peak than used to exist
also that railyard development will really change how the ESB looks in that area coming up the turnpike - the ESB sort of alway stood out in the thoe 30 blocks and think it will not as much after the railyard tower are built
Not a building construction project, but none the less there was big news in the energy sector that a second larger pipeline would be built through Marcus Hook, which is on the outskirts of Philadelphia. This is the big one for us and our region to returning to world class form.
Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. announced Thursday that it will build an enormous, $2.5 billion pipeline project that will quadruple the volume of Marcellus Shale natural gas liquids moving through the Philadelphia area.
The Mariner East 2 project, the second phase of a plan to move materials like propane, butane, and ethane from Appalachian shale-gas fields, would dramatically expand industrial activity at the company's Marcus Hook Industrial Complex.
Sunoco Logistics said it would build a pipeline at least 16 inches in diameter to follow the route of its first Mariner East project, an 83-year-old fuel pipeline crossing Pennsylvania that the company is repurposing to carry liquids to Marcus Hook.
Industry and political leaders have rallied behind the Mariner East projects as a way to closely tie Philadelphia to the Marcellus Shale region, which now accounts for nearly a quarter of the nation's natural gas production.
For more than a year now, talk has circulated about Philadelphia’s future as an energy hub, an idea advocated by some of the region’s most powerful business and political leaders. But the ultimate goal of their still-nascent *campaign is much grander than is widely understood. Their objective is nothing less than the Workshop of the World reborn: a Philadelphia with a new natural-gas-powered economy, built atop a foundation of manufacturing might.
The scope of their ambition is at once breathtaking, *inspiring — and more than a little frightening. There’s the potential here for a fundamental shift in Philadelphia’s landscape, its economy and even its basic character. And it’s a vision that, incredibly, looks to be just as plausible as it is radical.
Philadelphia has it's first true Industrialist business leader in generations with Phil Rinaldi.
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In 1950, a third of all working Philadelphians labored in factories. Today, that has dwindled to just five percent, for a host of reasons too familiar to list. Modern-day job growth in Philadelphia is driven by the arts (jobs up 27 percent between 2004 and 2012), hospitality (19 percent), education (27 percent) and health care (30 percent), according to U.S. Census data. Most Philadelphians, I think, have made peace with the notion that big industry is a part of the city’s past. Philadelphia’s identity today is built on intellect rather than manufacturing, on haute cuisine instead of heavy industry.
Rinaldi flatly rejects that. “I’ve never changed. I really believe in the need for manufacturing and heavy industry. I think it’s a key for a vibrant economic society,” he says. “That’s not been a widely held view for a long time, so for a guy who does these kinds of businesses, you spend much of your life being quietly vilified by people.”
But not in Philadelphia, Rinaldi hastens to add. At least, not so far. “We have political leadership that’s supportive at really every level.”
Just as crucial as political backing, Rinaldi says, is the region’s neglected but still extant industrial infrastructure. Philadelphia was literally built for this. Back in the 1800s and early 1900s, the city’s massive manufactories — Baldwin Locomotive Works, the Cramp shipyards and many more — were powered by cheap and abundant Pennsylvania anthracite. The fuel is different today — gas and crude instead of coal — but Philadelphia’s infrastructure and geography remain just as compelling and relevant as they were 100 years ago.
Philadelphia has perhaps the best freight rail connections in the East; the port; unbeatable proximity to the nation’s largest consumer markets; and heavy industrial sites along both rivers with the zoning and acreage for guys like Rinaldi to build massive new plants. “Manufacturing in Philadelphia isn’t dead,” he argues. “It’s just in a state of suspended animation.”
But that latent infrastructure has been waiting for decades. “So what’s changed?” I ask Rinaldi.
“The whole world,” he replies.
In recent years, the American energy sector has hit a series of massive gushers: crude in the Bakken formation beneath the grasslands of North Dakota, gas in the Piney Woods of Texas and Louisiana, and, above all, the Marcellus Shale here in Pennsylvania.
So far, the Marcellus find hasn’t reverberated much in Philadelphia, apart from creating a small number of jobs and a lot of anti-fracking bumper stickers. But it’s hard to overstate the national and even global significance of the gas field in the Marcellus Shale, which is one of the two or three largest, not just in the U.S., but in the world.
Fracking, the controversial and relatively new drilling technique that blasts shale rocks with fluids at tremendous pressures in order to fracture the rocks and release the gas and oil they contain, has utterly upended the old energy world order. According to the International Energy Agency, the United States became the globe’s top producer of natural gas last year. In 2015, the U.S. is projected to become the second largest producer of oil, trailing only Saudi Arabia.
American energy independence, that great unicorn that presidents since Richard Nixon have yearned to capture, is now legitimately within reach, with potentially profound implications not just for the nation, but for the local economy.
But as long as the massive reserves of the Marcellus Shale have to flow through Texas and Louisiana to reach Philadelphia, these developments mean little to the city. Without direct access to the Marcellus boom, Philadelphia has little more going for it than Baltimore, Pittsburgh, or any other Eastern city with an industrial infrastructure. “None of it,” Rinaldi says of Philadelphia’s energy-fueled future, “is possible without the pipeline.”
Obviously the article came out before the pipeline was offically announced yesterday. It appears a new day is upon us in Philadelphia, hopefully.
To add to the fun also this: http://philly.curbed.com/archives/20...il-station.php
Considering the price tag they throughout I doubt it will ever happen though, who knows though.
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are the two sort of parallel to 432 (or whatever it is) going to be taller than it
111 West 57th street - 1397ft to the roof - probably 1500ft to the top of the crown
217 West 57th street - 1490ft to the roof - 1775ft to the tip of the spire (1 foot shorter than the tip of One World Trade antenna)
There is also a 7 star hotel coming to 31 West 57th street, should be a supertall as well.
And a supertall at 237 Park ave.
432 Park ave is 1396ft tall
Empire State building is 1250ft to the roof - 1454ft to the tip of the spire
Those numbers are definitely inflated for Houston... they counted $9 billion in petrochemical plants for Houston construction (no wonder Houston numbers went up 176%). Sure technically it makes sense, but I think most people are looking for residential/commercial space construction.
Those numbers are definitely inflated for Houston... they counted $9 billion in petrochemical plants for Houston construction (no wonder Houston numbers went up 176%). Sure technically it makes sense, but I think most people are looking for residential/commercial space construction.
yeah makes sense but even without is a lot going on in Houston
looks like most places were up in 2014 relative to 2013 new starts
SF was down a little but still very sizable regardless
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