Skyscraper Comparison in US Cities 1 - 1.5 Million Metro Area Population

[Mutiny77]

Originally Posted by Peter1948

I cannot see raleigh being a skyscraper town like Charlotte. Even with tech and research there, the metro is built for more suburban style office parks. Covid will solidify that pattern.

Nobody said anything about Raleigh becoming "a skyscraper town like Charlotte." Raleigh's core was already getting several taller midrise projects built and planned over the last couple of years but local zoning regulations largely prevented developers from going higher. The recent changes implemented by city council make it very likely that at least a handful of 300 ft+ buildings will go up over the next decade if the economic fallout from this pandemic doesn't prevent that from happening.

[rnc2mbfl]

Originally Posted by Mutiny77

Nobody said anything about Raleigh becoming "a skyscraper town like Charlotte." Raleigh's core was already getting several taller midrise projects built and planned over the last couple of years but local zoning regulations largely prevented developers from going higher. The recent changes implemented by city council make it very likely that at least a handful of 300 ft+ buildings will go up over the next decade if the economic fallout from this pandemic doesn't prevent that from happening.

Going forward, I don't think that Raleigh's future is based on competing with anyone, rather it just doing its own thing. Clearly its future will include more towers in its core, but those buildings won't be built in competition with anyone. It's just never been the city's vibe to worry about such things all that much. If this Covid-19 thing is minimized/managed soon, there will undoubtedly be a different skyline of Raleigh at the end of the decade, but if it drags on and on, then all bets are off. Regardless, Raleigh will continue to open up thousands of new residential units in its core, high rise or not. Also by the end of the decade, Raleigh's MSA population will be out of this category anyway. In fact, that's likely to happen before the middle of the decade.

[CinderFella7]

Originally Posted by nicholas_n

New Orleans was a major city prior to the advent of the automobile. There were over 100k residents in 1840!!!
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Originally Posted by jjbradleynyc

Ah, true about New Orleans! Makes sense--had that density for a long time. Wow.
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This. New Orleans leading this group doesn't surprise me at all. In 1960 New Orleans had over 600,000 residents in its city - it was one of the country's bigger cities for quite some time. It was the south's biggest city (and really the south's only major city) during the Civil War while others were still growing. For comparison it was just behind Boston and Dallas at number 15 in 1960. I keep using 1960 census because that is when it was at it's highest population. It's sad - like Detroit, it has fallen drastically in population. Who knows if they'll both ever be as big as they once were.