Austin vs Kansas City vs Indianapolis vs Columbus vs Nashville vs Raleigh vs Charlotte vs Jacksonville

[hickoryfan]

Yeah, I should have included Nashville with my last post.

[drrckmtthws]

Originally Posted by Shakeesha

Raleigh's metro is impressive, downtown not so much. Nashville keeps getting better with so much construction going on.

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There's a reason for this, for starters Downtown Raleigh didn't really start growing until fairly recently
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then just in comparison to Charlotte as an example, instead of locating everything downtown(or uptown) Things are going to RTP(which is about to urbanize and build a downtown...which means again things won't all be in downtown Raleigh).

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Downtown Durham and chapel Hill, which continues to grow and more and more companies are locating there vs Raleigh.
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Then Cary, Cary is of course a suburb of Raleigh but also NC's 7th largest city and also a large employment center with many people not even leaving Cary to go to work between SAS, Regency Parkway and Weston Parkway, Epic Games, etc.

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North Hills skyline continues to grow and is becoming a actual midtown vs a glorified shopping center lol. With 2 more towers to start soon and more high rises on the other portion to also start this year, then midtown East to also start.
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Basically there's a lot of things to where everything won't be located in Downtown Raleigh, where as other cities don't have this issue.

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That said Downtown Raleigh is growing rapidly despite the flack it gets, literally construction all over.

[Shakeesha]

This video shows a very good look at Columbus's skyline at about 3:50. (Avoid the political rhetoric, that is not the intent). I have not seen any shots as good as this one recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cNgKKzsqvw

[Shakeesha]

Originally Posted by drrckmtthws

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There's a reason for this, for starters Downtown Raleigh didn't really start growing until fairly recently
.
then just in comparison to Charlotte as an example, instead of locating everything downtown(or uptown) Things are going to RTP(which is about to urbanize and build a downtown...which means again things won't all be in downtown Raleigh).

.
Downtown Durham and chapel Hill, which continues to grow and more and more companies are locating there vs Raleigh.
.
Then Cary, Cary is of course a suburb of Raleigh but also NC's 7th largest city and also a large employment center with many people not even leaving Cary to go to work between SAS, Regency Parkway and Weston Parkway, Epic Games, etc.

.
North Hills skyline continues to grow and is becoming a actual midtown vs a glorified shopping center lol. With 2 more towers to start soon and more high rises on the other portion to also start this year, then midtown East to also start.
.
Basically there's a lot of things to where everything won't be located in Downtown Raleigh, where as other cities don't have this issue.

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That said Downtown Raleigh is growing rapidly despite the flack it gets, literally construction all over.

Good. It will be interesting to see the changes the next time I am in town. I will be visiting this summer on my way to VA.