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I could see it becoming DC's version of La Defense outside of Paris. I suppose there are several other interesting parallels between DC and Paris; their skylines are both dominated by large monuments; they're mostly low-rise cities; DC has an interesting "grid" (designed by a French guy of course) with many diagonals, circles, and squares... sort of like Paris; and both are capital cities. And yet they feel so different still.
Just found out that there is a bi-annual crane count for most of the big North American cities, thanks to Rider Levett Bucknall. Who knew? Here's July's report:
Toronto: 110
New York: 70
Los Angeles: 45
Calgary: 34
Washington DC: 31
San Francisco: 26
Honolulu: 19
Phoenix: 19
Chicago: 16
Portland: 14
Seattle: 13
Boston: 6
Denver is listed as well, but for some reason the report doesn't list a concrete number, only saying that 5 new projects have commenced over the past 6 months.
Other cities like Miami, Houston, Dallas, and Vancouver are oddly missing. Either there's zero cranes currently erected in those cities (hard to believe) or RLB simply only tracks crane counts in select cities (far more believable). In any case, its interesting data, and I'm sure the fact that Toronto currently has 50%+ more cranes than New York will turn a few heads.
Just found out that there is a bi-annual crane count for most of the big North American cities, thanks to Rider Levett Bucknall. Who knew? Here's July's report:
Toronto: 110
New York: 70
Los Angeles: 45
Calgary: 34
Washington DC: 31
San Francisco: 26
Honolulu: 19
Phoenix: 19
Chicago: 16
Portland: 14
Seattle: 13
Boston: 6
Denver is listed as well, but for some reason the report doesn't list a concrete number, only saying that 5 new projects have commenced over the past 6 months.
Other cities like Miami, Houston, Dallas, and Vancouver are oddly missing. Either there's zero cranes currently erected in those cities (hard to believe) or RLB simply only tracks crane counts in select cities (far more believable). In any case, its interesting data, and I'm sure the fact that Toronto currently has 50%+ more cranes than New York will turn a few heads.
Thanks! This is fascinating. I'll check the updates often for this. DC has 3 mega developments just moving through site prep that will each have anywhere from 5-10 cranes so I could see DC adding a lot to the count soon. Should be interesting to see with so much development moving in LA, DC, and NYC. That apartment pipeline in LA is insane.
Midtown Atlanta has 13 residential projects currently under construction alone...that crane count is clearly wrong. This doesn't include Buckhead which is booming or any of our inner neighborhoods.
Just found out that there is a bi-annual crane count for most of the big North American cities, thanks to Rider Levett Bucknall. Who knew? Here's July's report:
Toronto: 110
New York: 70
Los Angeles: 45
Calgary: 34
Washington DC: 31
San Francisco: 26
Honolulu: 19
Phoenix: 19
Chicago: 16
Portland: 14
Seattle: 13
Boston: 6
Denver is listed as well, but for some reason the report doesn't list a concrete number, only saying that 5 new projects have commenced over the past 6 months.
Other cities like Miami, Houston, Dallas, and Vancouver are oddly missing. Either there's zero cranes currently erected in those cities (hard to believe) or RLB simply only tracks crane counts in select cities (far more believable). In any case, its interesting data, and I'm sure the fact that Toronto currently has 50%+ more cranes than New York will turn a few heads.
The report certainly doesn't make it very easy to read but I was just looking at the Seattle numbers based on the DJC article that referenced it that I had read earlier. Basically they only mention a delta since the last report and some of the subcounts for specific areas. However, you can reconstruct the actual numbers:
"Rider Levett Bucknall's latest North American RLB Crane Index shows 42 fixed cranes in the Seattle area, a drop of nine from the consultant's inaugural report in January."
Its kind of weird how the summaries for some areas give totals and others do not. So I'm not sure about some of the other numbers you list for the other delta counts.
Just found out that there is a bi-annual crane count for most of the big North American cities, thanks to Rider Levett Bucknall. Who knew? Here's July's report:
Toronto: 110
New York: 70
Los Angeles: 45
Calgary: 34
Washington DC: 31
San Francisco: 26
Honolulu: 19
Phoenix: 19
Chicago: 16
Portland: 14
Seattle: 13
Boston: 6
Denver is listed as well, but for some reason the report doesn't list a concrete number, only saying that 5 new projects have commenced over the past 6 months.
Other cities like Miami, Houston, Dallas, and Vancouver are oddly missing. Either there's zero cranes currently erected in those cities (hard to believe) or RLB simply only tracks crane counts in select cities (far more believable). In any case, its interesting data, and I'm sure the fact that Toronto currently has 50%+ more cranes than New York will turn a few heads.
Correction: Rider Levett Bucknail counts 42 cranes in Seattle.
Year to Year Percentage Growth In Residential Permits
New York +149.4%
Los Angeles +41.4
Miami +37.5%
Seattle +32.5
Dallas +17.5
Atlanta +16.7
Houston +2.4
Austin +0.1
Phoenix -1.0
Washington DC -12.4
The New York metro issued a whopping 57k housing permits through 6 months this year, but the huge percentage increase indicates things were stagnant prior to this surge.
Ditto for Los Angeles. While it's nice to see LA moving up these lists, the 20,000 housing permits granted are still insufficient. That's an off-year for Houston. But I predict a strong surge in construction for the region, and it can't come soon enough.
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The New York metro issued a whopping 57k housing permits through 6 months this year, but the huge percentage increase indicates things were stagnant on that front.
Last year during the same period NY was 2nd only to Houston in construction permits, so its not like NY was starting from a low base comparison... Even if there will be no construction permits issued at all for NY during the second half of this year (which is very unlikely) it would still be enough to secure 2nd place in overall count. My bet is NY will overtake Houston for this year, but next year they will swap again. In the long run, NY can't compete with Houston, since we don't have any empty land to build at all. Vast majority of the growth in NY is coming from new highrise apartment complexes (NY city accounts for like 70% of all NYC metro construction, and even suburbs in Jersey are building apartment skyscrapers).
Last edited by Gantz; 08-03-2015 at 03:22 PM..
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