Cities with most buildable vacant land

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by Allan Trafton

I love that Milwaukee is outpacing Atlanta, Austin, Minneapolis, Miami and many others.

Much of that has to do with the limitations imposed by their respective city limits.

[DavePa]

Originally Posted by atadytic19

I am very suspicious of this data.
In the last decade Houston had eliminated quite a bit of vacant land, but there are still some green fields on The Eastern edge and southern parts of the CBD.

I am not sure if they are also including surface parking because there are still many that escaped the building boom .

Houston developers can just keep buy-up older small ranch homes in declined areas on big lots.... level them and build new infill. Mostly multi-residential not high-rises.

So more irreverent to have virgin land in the city limits.

Northern large cities aging, were built out in city limits by the late 50s early 60s at the latest. Thier vacant land is former industrial tracts, areas of blight removed if near cores especially. One found ways to utilize Railroad beds above them air-rights and build above them with trains running below. General high-rises to skyscrapers because of added cost.

Older buildings can get additions above if built to last. Just saw a link that Chicago's Union Station will get residential floors built on top of it. So many possibilities over virgin land. Some options offered to Amazon in that city were vacated next to the core former industrial sights ..... now virgin land for new developments. Needing all new Infrastructure is basically from scratch too.

Picture shows one tract looking like a big park yet, but already getting development today
and railroad land to build over in the future. No flood plain to worry about either....

[Texyn]

Originally Posted by DavePa

Houston developers can just keep buy-up older small ranch homes in declined areas on big lots.... level them and build new infill. Mostly multi-residential not high-rises.

So more irreverent to have virgin land in the city limits.

Yes, but there's still lots of vacant land in Houston city limits. Depending on how the study classifies that, of course.

[the topper]

NY, Chicago, Philly, Houston, Dallas, San Diego and Phoenix are filled with vacant and open undeveloped land. Detroit has tons of open land. L.A., San Jose, Portland, Seattle, Oakland, SF, Boston, Pittsburgh, and others are basically built out.