smallest downtown for a city of 100,000 plus (living, best, state)
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In Colorado, Downtown Colorado Springs is laughable, especially for a city of 360,000+, it's like a one-two street corridor with a few tall buildings, some parks, a high school, and over priced night clubs.
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Most of the tall buildings are within 5 blocks of each other. The Views from downtown are beautiful.
Lmao I had to know someone would say Miami, people always hate on Miami, Miami has the 3rd largest skyline in the US but yet this dude said Miami has the smallest downtown in America for cities with a population of 100,000 +...can't ever win.
If anything, Miami has a bigger downtown and skyline than it's population would suggest, which is also rising as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKtWTN6r-wk - This video was taken in 2008 so it's a little older, but look at some of the construction going on. Miami has changed a lot in the last couple of years.
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I always thought St. Louis had a tiny downtown. The Arch and Laclede's Landing, the City Museum, and that one mall like area just NE of downtown were the only places you could go at night there. Very business-oriented downtown.
Because most of the places you go at night aren't there but along a central corridor that runs west nearly 10 miles. Partially due to height restrictions on buildings that can't be taller than the arch. It is set up more along a line of less dense but larger area, very similar to Atlanta in this aspect of a more corridor-based core.
...and it has a teeny tiny downtown for a city of what, 150,000?
Smaller still is Chesapeake, a city of well over 200,000. If you can find ANY downtown in Chesapeake, please point it out (a Wal-Mart does not qualify).
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