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San Antonio doesnt have a significant amount over 300 but at 200ft and above it has a respectable total amount. There are dozens of mid rises between 100- 200 ft and the bulk of the new residential construction are midrises 10 floors and under not a lot of buildings over 300ft planned. For a S.A. skyscraper enthusiast like myself, I wish developers in this city would build supertalls like in the other cities.
Notable buildings 200ft plus.
1. Tower of the Americas 750ft
2. Marriott Rivercenter 546ft
3. Weston Centre 444ft
4. Grand Hyatt Regency 424ft
5. Villita Tower(approved) 418ft
6. Tower Life 404ft/518ft Flagpole
7. Frost Tower 400ft
8. 300 Main 400ft U/C
9. Bank of America 387ft
10.Towers Park lane 368ft
11. Marriott Riverwalk 348ft
12. Drury Plaza Hotel 341ft
13. Intercontinental Hotel 325ft
14. 1031 Navaro 325ft Proposed
15. Nix Hospital 323ft
16. Arts/Thompson Condo 314ft
17. At&T Building 310ft
18. City Tower 300ft
19. Wurzbach Towers 300ft
20. Vidorra 292ft
21. The Enclave 1550 287ft
22. The Milam 280ft
23. Riverplace Dream Hotel 280ft Proposed
24. Broadway San Antonio 279ft
25. Riverplace 261ft Proposed
26. Pioneer Building 261ft
27. Riverview AC Hotel 260ft
28. 1603 Broadway 260ft
29. One Riverwalk Place 256ft
30. Hemisfair Park Hotel 250ft Proposed
31. Canopy Hotel 247ft
32. Cambria Hotel 247ft Proposed
33. Holiday Inn Riverwalk 228ft
34. University Hospital 227ft
35. The Inspire Apartments 226ft
36. Courtyard Marriott 222ft
37. Wilford Hall Med Ctr 220ft
38. Hilton Palacio Del Rio 217ft
39. Floodgate Apartments 215ft U/C
40. One International Centre 213ft
41. AT&T Building 209Ft
42. Air Force Village 205ft
43. Northwood Tower 205ft
44. Emily Morgan Hotel 205ft
45. Air force Village 205ft
46. One Technology Tower 205ft
47. Tetco Tower 205ft
48. Credit Human 200ft
49. Jefferson Bank 200ft U/C
50. Forum Tower 200ft
51. Continental Hotel/Apt 200ft U/C
52. Riverplace Residential 200ft Proposed
53. Riverplace 2 200ft Proposed
54. Ashford Oaks Tower 200ft
55. Embassy Suites Riverwalk 200ft
56. Hyatt Regency Riverwalk 200ft
57. Callaghan Tower 200ft
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San Antonio doesnt have a significant amount over 300 but at 200ft and above it has a respectable total amount. There are dozens of mid rises between 100- 200 ft and the bulk of the new residential construction are midrises 10 floors and under not a lot of buildings over 300ft planned. For a S.A. skyscraper enthusiast like myself, I wish developers in this city would build supertalls like in the other cities.
Building tall is mainly due to land value + lot size. The higher the land value and smaller foot print of said land the taller your are going to need to recoup the purchasing cost. Things like minimum parking requirements *pedestal buildings* & zoning also effect ultimate height.
If you were to use +200' metric the list would way look different. Example. (adjusted for land) St. Louis has over 90 completed buildings over >200' vs. Charlotte's 58.
Building tall is mainly due to land value + lot size. The higher the land value and smaller foot print of said land the taller your are going to need to recoup the purchasing cost. Things like minimum parking requirements *pedestal buildings* & zoning also effect ultimate height.
If you were to use +200' metric the list would way look different. Example. (adjusted for land) St. Louis has over 90 completed buildings over >200' vs. Charlotte's 58.
It's fascinating to think that St Louis was one of the largest cities in the United States around the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries. In the 1800s, it was in the top 5 largest cities.
Due to this, St Louis had built a lot of infrastructure, and should have many high rises and density over other cities, today.
I wish St Louis would improve their downtown, and focus on more density and infill there. Height would be a nice addition, but I would love to see another 15-20 buildings built in the 200-400 foot range. It would really "bulk up" the downtown and make it appear like the large legacy city that it is.
If we're dreaming, I'd suggest 5,000 housing units in six-story buildings personally, with low parking ratios and all of it below-grade. And some towers in the core of the core.
I was recently in Houston and that city's skyline doesn't get talked about enough in my opinion. Outside of south Florida, Houston is EASILY the most impressive Sunbelt skyline!
I was recently in Houston and that city's skyline doesn't get talked about enough in my opinion. Outside of south Florida, Houston is EASILY the most impressive Sunbelt skyline!
It's hard to photograph though. There are some good angles where you get two or three in the frame, but it's hard to get a good chunk of them together.
Places like Austin and Nashville have one skyline so you get it all at once. Even Seattle and Atlanta gives you that money shot really easily. But Houston .... it's just too many staggered skylines to get a good shot.
From 288 south you get a good view of The Med Center and Downtown in a monster skyline.
From the Belfort Overpass near the Fannin South Rail Line you get one of the best views of the city.
From Rice University you get a really good middle tier skyline. It excludes Houston's 3 biggest skylines (downtown, Uptown and TMC) and it is still competitive with skylines of big cities.
From the Netflix series "Mo" you get a nice Shot of Downtown with TMC on its left and Montrose to its right but Midtown, Binz/Museum District, Upper Kiby is all blocked.
Correction, you can see Uptown Houston from Rice:https://imgur.com/0ZP0VxB
It's Downtown, TMC, Midtown, Etc that's missing from that pic
From UH get a totally different stretch of buildings. So yeah, places like Seattle, Austin and Nashville will always get more talk on here than places like Houston, LA, even NY and DC because in all of those cities the skylines are not laid out all picture perfect. You could probably plop the whole skyline of Nashville in Houston and the change would be barely noticeable, but in its natural setting Nashville skyline is amazing.
NY has been steadily pumping out supertall buildings and everyone just shrugs,
It's fascinating to think that St Louis was one of the largest cities in the United States around the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries. In the 1800s, it was in the top 5 largest cities.
Due to this, St Louis had built a lot of infrastructure, and should have many high rises and density over other cities, today.
I wish St Louis would improve their downtown, and focus on more density and infill there. Height would be a nice addition, but I would love to see another 15-20 buildings built in the 200-400 foot range. It would really "bulk up" the downtown and make it appear like the large legacy city that it is.
I went thru there by car a few months ago, I agree it needs a lot of bulk but it also needs some taller scrapers too, maybe 3-5 added in the 750+ range to make it more Pittsburgh like.
It's hard to photograph though. There are some good angles where you get two or three in the frame, but it's hard to get a good chunk of them together.
Places like Austin and Nashville have one skyline so you get it all at once. Even Seattle and Atlanta gives you that money shot really easily. But Houston .... it's just too many staggered skylines to get a good shot.
From 288 south you get a good view of The Med Center and Downtown in a monster skyline.
From the Belfort Overpass near the Fannin South Rail Line you get one of the best views of the city.
From Rice University you get a really good middle tier skyline. It excludes Houston's 3 biggest skylines (downtown, Uptown and TMC) and it is still competitive with skylines of big cities.
From the Netflix series "Mo" you get a nice Shot of Downtown with TMC on its left and Montrose to its right but Midtown, Binz/Museum District, Upper Kiby is all blocked.
Correction, you can see Uptown Houston from Rice:https://imgur.com/0ZP0VxB
It's Downtown, TMC, Midtown, Etc that's missing from that pic
From UH get a totally different stretch of buildings. So yeah, places like Seattle, Austin and Nashville will always get more talk on here than places like Houston, LA, even NY and DC because in all of those cities the skylines are not laid out all picture perfect. You could probably plop the whole skyline of Nashville in Houston and the change would be barely noticeable, but in its natural setting Nashville skyline is amazing.
NY has been steadily pumping out supertall buildings and everyone just shrugs,
Agree about NY it has many new tall buildings going up now probably 15-20 by my estimate walking by cranes. 270 Park Ave is a monster and will complement One Vanderbilt nicely. But I don’t get offended when NYC is excluded anymore because really does that matter?
Agree about NY it has many new tall buildings going up now probably 15-20 by my estimate walking by cranes. 270 Park Ave is a monster and will complement One Vanderbilt nicely. But I don’t get offended when NYC is excluded anymore because really does that matter?
It definitely doesn't. It's actually great to see more and more cities getting denser skylines.
I went thru there by car a few months ago, I agree it needs a lot of bulk but it also needs some taller scrapers too, maybe 3-5 added in the 750+ range to make it more Pittsburgh like.
Yeah, it has had a pretty stagnant skyline for decades. The problem with St Louis is that their tallest office building was completely vacant, as of early this year. Not sure if that has changed or if there are plans to convert it/renovate/etc.
Also, I'm sure their downtown has a ton of office vacancies now in general, due to the large bulk of white collar workers having the ability to work remotely. As most cities, I'm sure downtown vibrancy and crowds is much lower than it was pre-pandemic.
And from what I understand, even pre-pandemic downtown St Louis was lackluster from what it should've been.
I think their best bet is to go for high rise residential towers downtown. New office and hotel are not in demand for a city like St Louis.
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