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SF needs to keep building more and more like this. Sure, these are luxury units, but they relieve some of the pressure on the rest of the housing market and will actually help reduce gentrification in other parts of the city. There appears to be nearly endless demand to live in San Francisco - they need to keep building units to meet that demand.
St. Louis seems like an odd choice to add to this poll. It has highrise living, especially in its downtown, but it's not throwing up new towers all over the place to accommodate it like many of these cities are. That's not to say that there are no projects under construction, but a lot of the units created recently were due to conversions taking place in already existing historic highrises. Downtown is now littered with loft buildings because of that.
The two most high profile new residential highrises under construction in the city are One Cardinal Way across from Busch Stadium in Ballpark Village and One Hundred going up next door to the Chase Park Plaza directly across from Forest Park in The Central West End. One Hundred was designed by Studio Gang.
St. Louis seems like an odd choice to add to this poll. It has highrise living, especially in its downtown, but it's not throwing up new towers all over the place to accommodate it like many of these cities are. That's not to say that there are no projects under construction, but a lot of the units created recently were due to conversions taking place in already existing historic highrises. Downtown is now littered with loft buildings because of that.
The two most high profile new residential highrises under construction in the city are One Cardinal Way across from Busch Stadium in Ballpark Village and One Hundred going up next door to the Chase Park Plaza directly across from Forest Park in The Central West End. One Hundred was designed by Studio Gang.
Looking outside of St. Louis proper, its downtown Clayton that's been throwing up the new residential highrises as of late.
St. Louis reminds me of Baltimore in that sense as a lot of old office towers are being converted into residential buildings. Granted Baltimore is actively throwing up high-rises left and right. We just topped off a Liberty Harbor East (285’) and the newest high rise 801 Eastern Ave. (290’) is well U/C several blocks down the street from the former
That's one thing we don't have in my area. Our booms always mean lots of office space is needed, so changing use isn't necessary. Also, old brick and masonry buildings do very well with office tenants. My own office is an example.
St. Louis reminds me of Baltimore in that sense as a lot of old office towers are being converted into residential buildings. Granted Baltimore is actively throwing up high-rises left and right. We just topped off a Liberty Harbor East (285’) and the newest high rise 801 Eastern Ave. (290’) is well U/C several blocks down the street from the former
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That's one thing we don't have in my area. Our booms always mean lots of office space is needed, so changing use isn't necessary. Also, old brick and masonry buildings do very well with office tenants. My own office is an example.
St. Louis' employment base is highly decentralized. I recall reading a study from a few years back that found St. Louis to be the second most decentralized metro area, behind Detroit, in terms of job locations.
In the city proper, there are several neighborhoods/districts which downtown is actively competing with for office location, namely The Central West End and The Cortex District. Additionally about 7 to 8 miles west of downtown St. Louis is downtown Clayton, which is also throwing up new office towers. These areas, which make up the larger central corridor, have been flourishing, and downtown St. Louis was a bit late to the party.
Right now downtown St. Louis is only down to I believe two vacant highrises that need some sort of new ownership or plan, and there is a new office tower going up as part of Ballpark Village Phase II. I expect to see a lot more new construction going forward.
Houston's tallest residential (completed over 300')
2929 Weslayan 533'
One Park Place 518'
The Huntingdon 503'
Market Square Tower 502'
The Post Oak 499'
Four Leaf Towers 1 444'
Four Leaf Towers 2 444'
The Spires 426'
Latitude Med Center 423'
2727 Kirby 405'
The Mercer 400'
Arabella 399'
The Park Lane 390'
Aris Market Square 371'
Warwick Towers 361'
The Royalton at River Oaks 360'
Camden Post Oak 359'
Montage 358'
Mosaic 1 358'
Dominion at Post Oak 351'
The Kirby Collection Residential Tower 340'
The Mark 334'
Catalyst 334'
Post Oak 330'
Montebello 330'
Hanover Montrose 326'
Astoria 322'
Cosmopolitan 315'
Houstonian Condominiums 301'
The Bristol 309'
Greenway Condominiums Tower 1 300'
Greenway Condominiums Tower 2 300'
Houston's tallest residential (under construction over 300')
The Preston 549'
Hanover River Oaks 462'
Hanover Boulevard Place 350'
3300 Main 351'
The Driscoll 345'
Houston's tallest residential (serious proposed)
3200 Post Oak condos 51 stories
Vine Tower 44 stories
3200 Post Oak apartments 33 stories
The Allen 33 & 22 stories
Avant Post Oak Park 30 Stories
I rented in a highrise two years ago. A lot of nicer buildings offer extra things if you are willing to pay such as personal drivers, grocery delivery, housekeeping, etc. I will alway love Philly's architecture with the way the old buildings stand up with the new glass ones. Center City is pretty consistent in height due to the self imposed height limit that was in place until the 1980s. Philadelphia offers a ton in terms of events, restaurants, etc. right downtown.
Some views I had
I always thought it would be cool to live in Two Liberty Place. I have some pictures from One Liberty and I imagine the views would be similar. Emiid lives in there. Him and Ben Simmons are neighbors. Simmons lives a few blocks away at the Residences at Ritz.
Great stuff. And that's at half the price of a lot of the cities on the list.
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A few I snapped in DTLA
