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Every time my Chicago team flies into NYC, they cannot believe how much skyscraper construction is happening here.
It really is phenomenal to see so much construction happening real time.
I can't believe it either. It's almost as if there's been little slowdown in building construction here in New York, with this current residential and commercial economic blip that is affecting most US cities.
To date Miami currently has 62 completed Skyscrapers over 500+ feet | 150+ meters tall.
It has another 14 Under Construction at this height or taller including the Waldorf-Astoria tower (1,049 ft. / 100 stories) which will be the City's first Supertall.
Miami's numbers are by its City limits and will be almost double Houston's numbers in the next few years.
Oh ok. I figured it was by city limits.
Yeah Houston Condos seem to hover around 400ft. I know of only 5 above 500ft.
Recent completions, such as The Allen and Parkside/High Street(146.3M), Residences at La Colombe d’Or and The Discovery Green Office towers come close. Houston is getting in some really nice infill in and around it's downtown .
Bragging rights would be nice, but moving away from SFH to 6-30 floor multi- family is a plus for Houston.
Miami passed Houston and hasn't looked back.
Miami is way more dense and it has the added incentive to build talleer in its oceanviews.
Tbh I don't know why Houston is even building hirise condos at all with so much space and not so great views.
I've long felt the Philly skyline was ridiculously compact and somewhat undersized for its overall population. It has a nice pyramid-y shape to it but I don't get the hype of its skyline.
Now Miami- that's a skyline.... Seattle too.
TBH, that's why I like Philly's skyline. Sure, it's not huge, but the density and how it's layered does it for me.
I've long felt the Philly skyline was ridiculously compact and somewhat undersized for its overall population. It has a nice pyramid-y shape to it but I don't get the hype of its skyline.
Now Miami- that's a skyline.... Seattle too.
TBH, Seattle and Miami’s skylines may be huge, but when your on the ground, there is no question that Philadelphia feels bigger in the core.
This last one shows the high-rises a long Turtle Creek Blvd. The tallest buildings there are a little over 300 ft. The purple dot is where the 464 ft Four Seasons Turtle Creek is planned to go. In the yellow box is Love Field. IDK how they got that much height with the airport being so close. I do remember they tried to get 500 ft.
There's quite a bit of infill happening around Downtown Dallas, just not as much as I would like within the Downtown proper. Most of it in Downtown has occurred around Ross Ave and to the north by Woodall Rodgers Fwy. There are potential projects that could change that, but that's all that there it is right now, potential.
Here's two high-rise U/C in Uptown, that I mentioned previously that's adding to the density outside of Downtown proper. Uptown is 99% built out and is only seeing infill development from demolishing older buildings. There's no problem with lack of density there. This Google Streetview is from Dec 2023 and both towers are rising at the same time. They both look to be about 4 or 5 stories above ground when this was taken. (399 ft and 372 ft, respectively).
I've long felt the Philly skyline was ridiculously compact and somewhat undersized for its overall population. It has a nice pyramid-y shape to it but I don't get the hype of its skyline.
Now Miami- that's a skyline.... Seattle too.
At this point I think they'd have been better off keeping the height limits and going with the old school aesthetic. Same thing could have been said about L.A. up until the 1990's.
Once you break up that skyline with 1000 footers, you kind of just have to keep going.
At this point I think they'd have been better off keeping the height limits and going with the old school aesthetic. Same thing could have been said about L.A. up until the 1990's.
Once you break up that skyline with 1000 footers, you kind of just have to keep going.
Philadelphia's skyline is quite impressive from afar and at street level. The architecture alone is greater than most cities. Philadelphia has the tallest skyline outside of NYC and Chicago and this is fairly recent. The compactness and density of the skyline is something to behold. Philadelphia's skyline is in line with the metro population.
It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy! The great views are of the multiple skylines.
You might be right.
You build a park and a whole neighborhood develops around it.
Memorial Park has really nice views.
Hermann Park is developing residential is going higher and higher too.
But even the tiny urban parks have resulted in some astounding neighborhood changes.
Thanks. These developments don't get talked about much on here. Austin gets all the chatter.
Honestly, it is because skyscrapers and supertalls are more sexy to talk about. It's more obvious when one is built. High-rises take a little longer to notice, especially with an established skyline. So, a lot of them have to be built to really make a noticeable change, but when it does it can be nice too. There have been 2 - 500+ ft and 3 - 400+ ft buildings built in Dallas since 2012. The rest, for the most part, have been built in the 300+ ft range.
One reason, I like the Central development is that it will help create a skyline a long Central Expressway with Cityplace Tower, when entering the Downtown area. For the longest, I've thought more high-rises were needed around it to give it more context. This site would've been a suburban-style shopping center, anchored by a Sam's Club, if it wasn't for the neighborhood suing. The developer did a bait and switch, but the residents were promised and wanted high density development. I am glad they won and are not apart of the NIMBY type of crowd that's growing in Dallas. After that, the property was sold to make way for this development.
A few more projects slated for Uptown
Chalk Hill (2 buildings - 340 ft and 315 ft) and Harwood No. 15 (23 stories - ? ft) - both are recently announced and are adjacent to each other.
2500 Cedar Springs (3 buildings - 415 ft, 385 ft, 330 ft) - the leasing website has this labeled as available March 2026
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