when will they build a building taller then the ids?

[LM1]

Originally Posted by Slig

you find businesses to take up all the existing vacant office space downtown and we'll talk about throwing up another skyscraper.

Ding. The correct answer.

These buildings don't naturally grow from magical office-tower seeds, nor are they built by the government as decorative elements to enhance the skyline.
They're put there by commercial business interests who rent them out. If there is a need for more office square footage in MSP, then you will see more towers go up.

[Minnehahapolitan]

Looking at the vacancy rates, they have steadily decreased within the CBD, especially among Class A space. Right now, a building wouldn't surprise me as much as it would have a few months ago.

[TimtheGuy]

Originally Posted by michael31681

if you look at skyscraper page chicago has 8 building over 700 feet under construction whats there vacancy rate for office space? and whats minneapolis's vacancy rate? we do have a good size downtown but im curios as how chicago is filling up 8 huge towers and not only that there is many more way over 700 feet in the planning. i was excited about the nicollet and now im pretty sure thats not going to happen. with chicago having a huge downtown already im impressed that they are in need of so many more towers in such a small period of time.

Chicago is in a different league than MPLS. Check St. Louis, Denver and Seattle.

[Minneapolitan]

Originally Posted by michael31681

I would like to see another tall skyscraper go up in minneapolis that would break the 1000ft mark. and what the heck ever happend to the nicollet? anyway the ids is 57 floors and 787 feet tall. chicago has a 2000ft 160 floor building going up, thats almost 3 times as tall as the ids. big cities have big buildings. last time i checked the twin cities metro area had 3,502,891 people. mineapolis is huge and should have some huge buildings to go along with that.

Chicago is putting up a building almost 3 times as tall as our tallest bc their metro is almost 3X as big....? Our skyline is nowhere near short for the size of our metro. Although, a 1000' er would be nice...

[jaybrad77]

Minneapolis City has a population of 380,000 people, Chicago City has a population of 2, 800,000, and a metro area of close to 10,000,000. The entire Minneapolis/Saint Paul metro area is a little larger than the City of Chicago, but not by a huge margin, and that's not counting the Chicago area, so I would say it would be safe to assume that's why Chicago fills up skyscrapers, don't you think????