Top 10 Secondary Skylines (neighborhood, university, floors)

[austiNati]

NYC has multiple, but here goes:

Brooklyn
Jersey City
Newark
Oakland
Bellevue, Wa
Century City
Covington, Ky
Rosslyn (Arlington), Va
Clayton, MO
Miami Beach
Saint Petersburgh
Buckhead
Saint Paul
Downtown Las Vegas
Niagara Falls, NY

[mazbrah]

When I think of secondary skylines, Atlanta always pops into my head.
There are so many different skylines surrounding the city.

Stamford, as mentioned already, has a nice little skyline to it. I always love passing through it while driving from Boston to NYC

[Kaszilla]

I don't consider St. Paul a secondary city but here's a nice view of St. Paul with Mpls in the background.

[secondbreakfast]

Southfield, Michigan?

[ShenardL]

Originally Posted by mhays25

Not by my numbers. I drew maps on CoStar with similar boundaries and got 17.2 msf for Cumberland and 21.1 msf for Downtown Miami. Every source is different, but CoStar is typically the most complete. Though my maps are guesses.

That said, Buckhead is certainly in my top 10 secondary skylines as well.

https://www.peachtreecre.com/northwe...-office-space/
https://www.brookfieldproperties.com...-mall-248.html

I've seen figures of 24 million square feet of office space for Cumberland.

[mhays25]

Cumberland to Kennesaw apparently, per the first link. That's several miles away.

I used CoStar because it's up-to-the-minute, it's typically the most complete, and it lets you define the specific area.

This illustrates why it's usually a bad idea to compare two areas without much better info...it tends to be apples to kumquats.

[rnc2mbfl]

By no means would I call Raleigh's secondary skyline a top ten, but I did take a photo the other weekend where I was surprised to see its Midtown skyline in the distance and beyond the State Capitol building from the vantage point of a highrise apartment amenity deck.

[Mutiny77]

Originally Posted by Citykid3785

Yeah, no. Baltimore, St. Paul, Oakland, Ft worth.....while not the biggest skyline in the region, locally these aren't though of as secondary, complimentary, or in support of the bigger skyline nearby. They are their own distinct regions with their own suburbs.

Within MSAs, St. Paul, Oakland, and Fort Worth would indeed be considered the second-most important cities regionally with the second-largest skylines, at least for those who are being objective about it. At the same time, that doesn't negate the fact that they have their own spheres of influence within the larger metropolitan areas.

[Losfrisco]

Originally Posted by mhays25

It's less than two miles.


There's probably no commonly-agreed upon definition of "secondary skyline," so I've taken a stab at one.

A separate skyline completely distinct from the primary skyline.

Miami doesn't have this. Neither does San Francisco because most people are completely aware that they are looking at a separate city across an ocean bay when they see Oakland. People aren't thinking "wow, this is all.....SAN FRANCISCO!"


Obviously Atlanta, Uptown Houston has a really cool one, as well as Los Angeles. Multiple major skylines popping up in different distinct areas of one city.

[SaintX]

Originally Posted by Losfrisco

A separate skyline completely distinct from the primary skyline.

Miami doesn't have this. Neither does San Francisco because most people are completely aware that they are looking at a separate city across an ocean bay when they see Oakland. People aren't thinking "wow, this is all.....SAN FRANCISCO!"


Obviously Atlanta, Uptown Houston has a really cool one, as well as Los Angeles. Multiple major skylines popping up in different distinct areas of one city.

Miami does have another skyline in the city limits! Coconut Grove is a few miles from the core
https://images.fineartamerica.com/im...ppenheimer.jpg