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Which of these US cities have the most dense overall downtown skylines currently, or will have, in 5 years?
Portland
Seattle
Honolulu
Los Angeles
San Diego
Phoenix
Denver
Dallas
Houston
Atlanta
Nashville
Minneapolis
Detroit
Boston
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Charlotte
Austin
New Orleans
Jersey City
**I left out New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, and Miami, due to already existing incredible and growing density, far outpacing the others on the list.
Downtown Seattle is building many buildings in the 400'+ range...far beyond anyone else on this list. I count 34 (including four in site prep) that started since 2012 or so.
Also, ours are closer together. Where most cities build one tower with a podium, we build two towers.
The four in site prep are on the same block that's 1.8 acres not including the alley -- an extreme example of this. Four towers all just under the 484' height limit. This is actually two projects on opposite sides of the alley. Each project has two towers with wide separation (vaguely recalling over 100'). But both are close to the alley, so they're closer to the other projects' towers than their own twins. The second project was required to maintain the 60' separation above a certain height. The block will be remarkable...about 1,600 units, 300ksf office, sidewalk retail, and a small hotel.
If you're looking at density over 700, we have five towers. But if you're looking at density at 400', none of these others are close.
Remember this is about DENSITY not bigger or height.....in no order:
Philly
Boston
Pittsburgh
Charlotte
New Orleans
Not to be pedantic but the ask was "dense overall downtown skylines" Skylines are definitely driven by both height and size of the composite buildings.
Though I sometimes wonder about KodeBlue's penchant for bringing Baltimore into every conversation, this time he is totally on the mark. What Baltimore lacks in terms of truly tall buildings, it makes up for by packing medium sized buildings cheek to jowl. Of course, DC packs its shorter buildings even tighter. But, since there isn't much in the way of sky, there isn't much of a DC skyline.
Charlotte for density? I don't think so. Replace Charlotte with Baltimore
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