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That FW growth is taking place in far out land that extends into exurbia that is within the city limits of FW. There’s been some smaller scale development downtown with a few high rises, but most new development in the core has been low to mid rise development.
What's really crazy is that a lot of the largest and fastest growing urbanized areas are actually losing population density every year. They just keep building single family homes around the outside of the metro instead of infilling with multifamily etc. It's a pretty sad situation.
Have lived in both, but was recently back in Boston and the skyline definitely felt smaller than SF's.
The skyline's always been underwhelming for a city its size, but you must've noticed the drastic change? Including the Winthrop Center, 3 out of the 5 tallest buildings in the city were built in the last 10 years. South Station Tower will be #7 (I think) when it's finished.
The skyline's always been underwhelming for a city its size, but you must've noticed the drastic change? Including the Winthrop Center, 3 out of the 5 tallest buildings in the city were built in the last 10 years. South Station Tower will be #7 (I think) when it's finished.
Winthrop not really visible yet…getting there…Winthrop and govt center garage tower will be the two most stunning in skyline when complete…
From 2016-2025, Boston will have had 5/10 of its tallest built
One Dalton- 741ft (2017)
Winthrop Center- 691ft (2022)
Millennium Tower- 681ft (2016)
South Station Tower- 678ft (2024)
SSHQ- 647ft (2022)
The bulk of Boston’s construction has been/will continue to be 200-485ft.
This year, we have had roughly 20 approvals in Boston, within this range.
Development will not slow (its actually picking up…), but I think SST will be the last 600Ft+ for a while. Which is okay, I do not really like super talls or 600+ footers if not done right.
This is a list of completed +200’ buildings in each city. Paints a lot different picture in skyline size as buildings in the 200’ range play a huge roll in skyline infill/visual density.
Houston - 281+
SF - 223
Philly - 181
Dallas - 171
Boston - 156 (Does not include Cambridge)
Seattle - 147
Denver - 98
MSP - 93
SD - 86
St. Louis - 76
Austin - 68
Pittsburgh - 65+ (Does not include Clayton)
Baltimore - 65+ (Does not include Towson)
Portland - 61
Charlotte - 58
NYC, Chicago, Miami, LA are all major step above the “top” tier
MSP as in the Minneapolis - St. Paul metro area? If so, the metro is well over 93. Heck, the core cities of Minneapolis and St Paul have over 100.
If we go by the universal definition of skyscraper, a building 492 feet or taller, then yes, nearly all of the skyscrapers in Los Angeles city are within a few mile radius downtown. Hollywood doesn't even have a 300 foot structure, so high rises in general around the city are of course there, but not really as prominent as you imply. You included Long Beach for some reason, another city over 20 miles away.
So going by actual skyscrapers, Los Angeles has considerably more in a smaller area than Philadelphia, Boston, or Seattle and is ahead of San Francisco (31 minus two in Century City and one in the Valley, vs 27 in San Francisco).
Supertall cut off is 300m, not 1000'. So yes, Houston has 2 supertalls. The JPMorgan Chase Tower (305m) & the Wells Fargo Bank Plaza (302m)
Regarding skyscrapers..... LA has 31 (28 in DT), SF has 27, Boston has 26, Seattle has 24 while Philly trails at "only" 19 (despite it being the only city outside of NYC, Chicago & Houston with 3 or more +900' tall buildings)
So yeah I stand by my statement that LA does not have a "considerably" more skyscrapers (or high-rises) in its core than any of those cities I listed when 36 sq. mi Miami (proper) alone has 57 completed buildings over 150m and 103 over 400' for context.
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