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Right, and they’re all hotels. I assumed the city would also have a decent amount of office towers in the CBD, but it doesn’t.
Yeah, so true.
The large majority of the public does not realize that about Vegas--that the main "strip" is not downtown.
Downtown Las Vegas has a long way to go in terms of high rise development. I'd put downtown Vegas on par with more overall modest downtowns like Albuquerque or El Paso.
The large majority of the public does not realize that about Vegas--that the main "strip" is not downtown.
Downtown Las Vegas has a long way to go in terms of high rise development. I'd put downtown Vegas on par with more overall modest downtowns like Albuquerque or El Paso.
When I was in Las Vegas, I liked its quaint and kitschy downtown a million times better than the strip.
The large majority of the public does not realize that about Vegas--that the main "strip" is not downtown.
Downtown Las Vegas has a long way to go in terms of high rise development. I'd put downtown Vegas on par with more overall modest downtowns like Albuquerque or El Paso.
When I was in Las Vegas, I liked its downtown a million times better than the strip. There were some great remnants of the smaller scaled kitschy and quirkly Vegas of yesteryear.
Vegas (downtown, certainly not the strip)
Phoenix (#1 on any list)
Orlando
San Jose
Jacksonville (yes and no; has a surprisingly decent looking skyline from the distance, but it completely fades as you get closer, and there isn't that much going on downtown, so it probably shouldn't have a bigger skyline; it's a very decentralized metro)
I don't see how Jacksonville is a very decentralized metro in terms of its CBD and the skyline. You have the beach communities and St. Augustine which are obviously their own thing, but they are much more recreational and touristy in nature and contribute nothing to the skyline.
Jacksonville is pretty unique in that the St. John's River actually splits the urban core instead of serving as a convenient boundary between two different municipalities/counties. Thus, you have the main northbank cluster which is most often depicted as the city's skyline and includes the Main Street bridge towers, but that vantage point completely excludes the smaller southbank cluster. When the city's skyline is viewed from a distance, both clusters contribute to the visual but once you're actually in downtown, it's broken up.
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Downtown Vegas would be a heck of a lot cooler if they had built the monstrosities on the strip downtown instead. I'm sure it's space prohibitive and all that, but I agree with the previous poster that there are missed opportunities there.
The strip was chosen, because it's not in Las Vegas city limits (it's county land/unincorporated). The mafia built most of the original casino's and due to pressure from local law enforcement, could not set up in the city of Las Vegas proper
It probably should. Fort Worth skyline is at the mercy of the rapidly growing outward population that has occurred in that city over the past 20 years. Metro wise, it probably has a skyline of its peer when you break down the DFW area to just the FW division which is around two million people. I don't think either San Antonio or Fort Worth beats San Jose or Phoenix though.
It's not just an issue of tallness but also (or even more) an issue of DENSITY. That is, some sizable-enough cities or metro areas have tall buildings downtown but they are rather spread out (with a good distance between one another) and hence, when you look at the city from a distance, it doesn't or doesn't necessarily portray a look of a dense, well-developed city like New York City, Chicago, Seattle, and others do. That is, there are all sorts of gaps between the city's taller buildings which doesn't cover that "big" or "bigger" city image. One example of this is Cleveland, Ohio. On the ground and when traversing through downtown Cleveland, it looks quite visually impressive and well-developed but, from a distance from other parts of the city or metro area, it doesn't quite convey that "dense, well-developed downtown" look. That is, too many wide distances between taller buildings.
Another example: You pass by Hartford, Connecticut on the expressway and the downtown and city looks visually impressive and well-developed/standout-ish (i.e., dense development of tall buildings along with somewhat shorter buildings). Yet, if you drove by Springfield, Massachusetts or Worcester, Massachusetts, it hardly at all gives the visual impression that Hartford, Connecticut presents. As to Worcester, MA (said to be the second largest city in New England after Boston, MA), you can pass it from a distance or even up close and not see any or hardly any skyline at all. Providence (RI) and Hartford, CT have much more impressive skylines. Even New Haven (CT) does as well.
Baltimore, while not a major city, has one of the smallest, boxy, unimpressive skyline of any big city. It lacks a tower that even reaches 600 feet. It's a shame because the harbor backdrop is beautiful. In all these years they couldn't even get a signature tower that is even 600 ft. It's a tiny collection of little boxes. Even cities like Austin and OKC have signature 600+ feet towers.
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