New Orleans needs more skyscrapers

[Suesbal]

Why does New Orleans need new skyscrapers when the tall buildings they currently have are not all occupied?
https://www.wdsu.com/article/wdsu-in...oped/36279994#
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Tower

[atler8]

Originally Posted by imaterry78259

Paris has tons of skyscrapers!

Within the city limits of Paris, there is but one really tall building that was somehow allowed to be built in the 1970's via what today looks to have been an aberration & mistake. The Montparnasse Tower is just shy of 700' in height and, if they had their way, most residents of Paris proper would love to see it torn down.

The skyscraper region of metro Paris, is located in an area called La Defense which another poster has mentioned.
It features some really out there modern architecture among it's numerous skyscrapers but it does sit outside of Paris and it's Peripheral (beltline-like) Highway.

As I wrote here earlier, if New Orleans is to ever build new skyscrapers of note in terms of height &/or design, there first has to be an underlying reason for them, i.e. an increased demand for office space.
When the city economy generates enough business and job creation such that more towers are warranted, renewed new Orleans skyscraper construction will most likely be the result.

[Minato ku]

The City limits of Paris are tiny, just 40 sq mi. (33 sq mi inside the Peripherique). This limit is right in the middle of very densely built areas and make no sense today.
The land area of New Orleans city limits is 169 sq mi, more than four time the size of the City of Paris.
Taking a bigger area including La Défense would still be smaller than 160 sq mi.

Even the City of Paris proper added two other 500ft towers inside the Peripherique beltway recently.
Duo tower 1, 590 ft (2021)
Paris Courthouse 520ft (2018)
There is the 590ft Triangle tower under construction.

Montparnasse tower will be heightened, it will rise to 761ft in a near future.

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by Minato ku

The City limits of Paris are tiny, just 40 sq mi. (33 sq mi inside the Peripherique). This limit is right in the middle of very densely built areas and make no sense today.
The land area of New Orleans city limits is 169 sq mi, more than four time the size of the City of Paris.
Taking a bigger area including La Défense would still be smaller than 160 sq mi.

Even the City of Paris proper added two other 500ft towers inside the Peripherique beltway recently.
Duo tower 1, 590 ft (2021)
Paris Courthouse 520ft (2018)
There is the 590ft Triangle tower under construction.

Montparnasse tower will be heightened, it will rise to 761ft in a near future.

About 40% or so of that land is marsh in Bayou Sauvage.

[stephenMM]

Uh, not to cloud the issues with reality, but putting skyscrapers in a city where the highest point is 3 feet UNDER sea level...........

New Orleans is the least closed minded city in America, where do these uninformed people come from???

[DelTachi]

New Orleans can't even fill the skyscrapers we have now. No need to build new ones.