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The website I linked to before had a different list that was ordered by cities with the most buildings over 35 meters or 12 stories (no idea how old or how accurate it is):
World Ranking Name # of Builds over 35 Meters
151 Detroit 270
154 San Juan 252
156 Boston 237
159 Atlanta 234
162 Seattle 222
168 Denver 204
171 Minneapolis 192
179 Baltimore 159
184 Pittsburgh 151
185 Miami Beach 150
185 St. Louis 150
187 San Diego 149
189 Austin 140
191 Fort Lauderdale 136
194 Las Vegas 135
198 Nashville 131
199 Portland 129
Whatever the source is, the 149 number for San Diego has been referenced for years. I'd guess at least 5 years old. I'm not even sure it's accurate to begin with (seems too high). Either way, UC San Diego alone has probably built 7-10 high rises in since that 149 first appeared. I wouldn't trust it
Whatever the source is, the 149 number for San Diego has been referenced for years. I'd guess at least 5 years old. I'm not even sure it's accurate to begin with (seems too high). Either way, UC San Diego alone has probably built 7-10 high rises in since that 149 first appeared. I wouldn't trust it
Every city on this list has been throwing up high rises left and right so yeah it’s pretty outdated
Emporis probably has the most accurate listing as of current
San Diego has:
56 buildings +100m
210 buildings 35-100m
By high rise I mean greater than 15 floors and located in the core areas.
NY, Chicago and Miami are obvious.
Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle and San Francisco make the cut as well I think.
All of those but Atlanta and SF. L.A. is also an oversight and if you include Canada, Vancouver and Toronto easily rank with NY, Chicago and Miami. Up and comers - Houston, DFW (several now in suburban Plano/Frisco/Grapevine exceeding 20 stories) and Austin. In fact, I think in 5 years, next to south Florida, I think Austin will be #2 in the sun-belt. The downtown waterfront and the area called the Domain. At the same time, some areas of Austin don't need them because elevation is already 700- 1000 feet above the river/lake
Does Atlanta and Boston have that much more than Houston and Dallas?
Boston I would say yes because its got a long history, limited land compared to DFW or Houston. Atlanta, 20 years ago yes. Not now. Dallas -Uptown/Downtown and far north Plano/south Frisco and to a lesser extent Fort Worth are the pockets of hi-rise (15 stories or more). Most of what I've seen in DFW tends to be more Hi-rise (over 25 stories) than midrise to me. Same with Houston. I think Builders feel they get more economies of scale on the same size site by building higer.
Where is the main high rise residential area? If I knew where that was maybe I could explain how I missed them.
Here's a good site show many of Houston residential towers. I'm a Houston native. Areas where you find clusters include:
Hermann Park/TX Medical Center;
Upper Kirby/Museum District then west to the Galleria/Uptown area - its basically look west of downtown for a couple of miles and that's where the bulk will be found. Maybe there are one or two in the Woodlands 25 miles north but they are an outlier.
Wait I was just thinking.. how does Boston has 0 high rises per that link in 1990, when the Darth Vador Towers (2) and Harbor Towers (2) were built in the 70s? Are their metrics buildings constructed that decade?
You didn’t miss that much. Houston has a decent share of high rise residential buildings. They’re very spread out and thus not as noticeable as other cities.
Just take a google tour and it’s right there to see. There are absolutely NO clusters however that would compare to midtown Atlanta or uptown Dallas. It’s relative to say tons have gone up when there was never really a lot to begin with. If I wanted to move to a big city to experience high rise residential living with some urban street activity (you really need both), it wouldn’t be Houston. Even in Texas alone. That would be Dallas.
The tallest two hi-rises in the south outside of Miami are in Austin. I believe 10 of the 12 tallest buildings in Austin are residential, the two highest are 690 and 683 feet pure residential towers. A new 30-story apt. tower, The Quincy, just opened in Austin.
The 33-story Natiivo opens later this year in ATX.
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