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Location: East Central Pennsylvania/ Chicago for 6yrs.
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I guess to each his own.
Many people prefer dense cities with lots of people and vibrant neighborhoods with people walking everywhere. Other's prefer quiet neighborhoods with yards and huge setbacks and privacy. Those people have plenty of options in the suburbs for that lifestyle.
I wasn't going to reply... but the thread went quite? So I will awaken it. I realize sure you could move to the suburbs for single homes with lawns? Dense doesn't always mean vibrant if poor too? But for ALL the first half of the 20th century. Philly built ALL ROWS for the working class. Many on alley size streets, plain even bland even when new? BUT I CHOSE SOME LESS PLAIN ONES, as some added awnings and siding. More have a fancier Row with some flair? ⤵
On the other hand a city like Chicago in 1900 was doing single cottage homes for the working masses like these, with front Lawns for most and tree lined ⤵
I wasn't going to reply... but the thread went quite? So I will awaken it. I realize sure you could move to the suburbs for single homes with lawns? Dense doesn't always mean vibrant if poor too? But for ALL the first half of the 20th century. Philly built ALL ROWS for the working class. Many on alley size streets, plain even bland even when new? BUT I CHOSE SOME LESS PLAIN ONES, as some added awnings and siding. More have a fancier Row with some flair? ⤵
On the other hand a city like Chicago in 1900 was doing single cottage homes for the working masses like these, with front Lawns for most and tree lined ⤵
Poor neighborhoods are usually some of the most vibrant neighborhoods in many cities. I know SE D.C. is always jumping. People hang out on the street all day and night.
Location: East Central Pennsylvania/ Chicago for 6yrs.
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Poor neighborhoods are usually some of the most vibrant neighborhoods in many cities. I know SE D.C. is always jumping. People hang out on the street all day and night.
I didn't address poor neighborhood vibrancy? I merely noted while Philly and Baltimore were doing tight rows plain and walled most times, to the sidewalk and on alley size streets for its working class masses, even well through the 20th century.
Chicago embraced the single Workman's Cottage instead for the working masses. Chicago also chose a street grid of in the neighborhoods off main streets with set-backs, green frontage, tree-lined and alleys in back in most of the city for power lines and garbage pick-up.
Again examples..
Philly too.....⤵
I like this shot the next two is from the same intersection. One looking one direction, the other the opposite side of later with some tree space rows that were more expensive too probably. Better then the vast bland tight varieties⤵
Well, 1 Dalton officially breaks ground tonight at 6pm (rendering and story by following the link). It'll be the 3rd tallest in Boston when complete and the tallest completed in 40 years at 699 feet. It'll be a mix of hotel (a Four Seasons- making Boston one of only a handful of cities on the planet with two Four Seasons hotels) and residential.
There are dozens of large projects taking place in Boston, but these are the two biggest... At least until the TD Garden Towers break ground this Spring. The tallest of that bunch will be around 600 feet, and the project will contain a 306 room hotel, 670,000 sq feet of office space, 500 residences and an abundance of retail space.
The biggest challenge in Houston was the demand for highrise living, back several years ago the city started giving out incentives to developers to start planning residential projects. Now downtown Houston is flooded with new apartments, condos, and hotels. Just recently Hines broke ground on a 32 residential tower. This incentive package is all part of the 2017 Superbowl that Houston will be hosting, as well as making downtown a more livable, vibrant area.
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Construction started today on the new Hines-developed One Market Square at Travis & Preston in Houston. The 32-story luxury high rise will feature 274 apartment homes when it’s completed in 2016.
With San Fran and D.C. doing so well from a development perspective, I wonder if they are #2 and #3 in the U.S. after NYC for urban cities infill development? Here are D.C.'s stats. Does anybody have stats for Philly, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, or LA? I'm sure the board would love to see some comparison's.
**I don't have the metro D.C. suburb stats. This is just city proper.**
I got this from skyscraperpage :
Downtown Center BID issued its latest market report a couple months back. Highlights:
- ~53k population, with median income approaching $100k
- 97% apt occupancy
- $17.3bn investment 1999-2013
- 28 buildings u/c, 38 in pipeline
- 6780 units resi u/c, 14594 in pipeline
- 1642 hotel rooms u/c, 1780 in pipeline
- 491k sq ft retail u/c, 846k in pipeline
- 354k sq ft office u/c
Central LA (47 sq miles) has well over 10k housing units u/c.
Can't find the # of units, but I found this regarding 2014 for Chicago:
19.5% more renovation permits issued compared to last year - $2.91 billion total
15.7% more new construction permits issued compared to last year - $3.00 billion
9% of Chicago's land is within 2 blocks of a CTA L station (five minute walk), but saw 26% of new construction permits and 56% of all new construction dollars city-wide. Renovations saw 30% of all permits and 75% of construction dollars.
Overall around 49,700 new construction and renovation permits were issued.
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