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It sounds like what San Francisco has enjoyed with One Rincon Tower's construction is occuring right now in Downtown Dallas with the construction of Museum Tower in the Downtown Dallas Arts District.
One Rincon Tower is 605 feet tall and Museum Tower is 560 feet tall. Both are located just slightly outside the main cluster of taller skyscrapers in both respective cities.
What is happening is that Museum Tower in Dallas is pulling the Downtown Financial District so far north that it melds seamlessly into the explosive highrise growth of the Uptown and Victory Park Districts of Downtown where around 11,000,000 square feet of new office towers have been constructed since around 2005/2006.
And there are several 700+ foot tall towers in the pipeline planned for the immediate Museum Tower area, along with one tower upwards of 1040 feet in height, plus nine or so 300-375 foot to near 700 foot towers in the near term pipeline for the Uptown District.
One Rincon Tower for San Francisco and Museum Tower for Dallas are both game changers.
Immediately below is a recent photo of the Downtown Dallas corridor shot from the air on 03-24-11.
It looks very Los Angeles-like in the way dense highrise and skyscraper development stretches in a long swath outward from the Downtown Financial District.
The expansive and highly acclaimed Dallas Medical District can be seen in the lower left hand corner of the photo. Two new massive hospitals, Parkland and St. Paul amounting to 3.8 million square feet at $2.1 billion dollars in investment, are currently under construction in the Dallas Medical District:
Dallas Medical District to expand by 3.8 million square feet, 10-12-10 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52949402@N03/5080230744/in/set-72157625305567566 - broken link)
In the lower right hand corner foreground is the new urban frontier of West Dallas. The Santiago Calatrava designed bridge can be seen straddling the Trinity River as the gateway between Downtown Dallas and West Dallas. The Calatrava Bridge is still under construction and will feature "Golden Gate Bridge" like suspension wires stretching in both directions of the 400 foot tall arch and will be illuminated at night:
Calatrava Bridge with Downtown Dallas 1, 01-31-11 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52949402@N03/5408910231/ - broken link)
West Dallas will hold over 30,000,000 square feet of dense skyscraper and highrise development immediately across from the current footprint of Downtown Dallas. This growth is planned to occur over the next 17 years and was approved by the Dallas City Council in early March, 2011:
http://www.dallascityhall.com/cityde...debook-eng.pdf
And the Trinity River will be transformed into a 10,000 acre park for the City of Dallas that will feature sports venues, ecological preserves, canoe rapids, park spaces, performance spaces, and will become a major magnet for growth in the City Center. The Trinity River Parks development is a $3.0 billion dollar project that will be equivalent to Treasure Island in San Francisco as it will spur untold billions in development stretching along its path.
What is happening in Dallas is that the dense skyscraper and highrise swath that is seen in the image from the traditional Financial District northward (and will include in the future the new urban frontier of West Dallas to the west) is getting denser and denser with more and more highrise and skyscraper tower development. In the next 20 years, this area will begin to look more like Chicago as it continues to fill in and the density reaches ever greater heights and mass.
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