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Too many people are counting skyscrapers, but number of high rises tell a better story. A majority of cities have very few skyscrapers. Usually like one or two at best. You cant put one city above another because it has one more skyscraper than another, but thirty less highrises. skyscrapers just dont tell the whole story.
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Too many people are counting skyscrapers, but number of high rises tell a better story. A majority of cities have very few skyscrapers. Usually like one or two at best. You cant put one city above another because it has one more skyscraper than another, but thirty less highrises. skyscrapers just dont tell the whole story.
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By high-rise count:
Denver has 272
St. Louis has 246 (Clayton has an additional 47)
Baltimore has 215 (Towson has an additional 23)
Austin has 213
Portland has 181
Pittsburgh has 170
Charlotte has 148
Las Vegas has 141
This a far more accurate representation of the cities
Denver has 272
St. Louis has 246 (Clayton has an additional 47)
Baltimore has 215 (Towson has an additional 23)
Austin has 213
Portland has 181
Pittsburgh has 170
Charlotte has 148
Las Vegas has 141
This a far more accurate representation of the cities
Denver has 272
St. Louis has 246 (Clayton has an additional 47)
Baltimore has 215 (Towson has an additional 23)
Austin has 213
Portland has 181
Pittsburgh has 170
Charlotte has 148
Las Vegas has 141
This a far more accurate representation of the cities
This is nonsense as far as downtown Austin in concerned. There are far more live music venues, bars, restaurants than there were even ten years ago, and the vast majority of the older iconic ones survive and thrive: Antone's, the Elephant Room, Esther's Follies, Elysium, The Paramount, etc. Because of strict historic preservation codes and the capital view corridor ordinances, the overwhelming majority of downtown Austin skyscraper construction in the last decade (I would estimate 90% of it or higher) has happened on surface parking lots - hardly displacing older establishments. I can think of only 2 exceptions. In 2007, Las Manitas- a beloved Mexican restaurant was demolished to build a massive JW Marriott hotel, and in 1999, Liberty Lunch was demolished, but that was well before the current skyscraper boom. What you say is truer of the East Side, but not single skyscraper has been built there. You may feel that the skyscrapers in downtown Austin have displaced/sacrificed older establishments, but the facts tell a very different story.
I remember an uproar when the government was helping Las Manitas financially. Turns out they were millionaires.
Denver has 272
St. Louis has 246 (Clayton has an additional 47)
Baltimore has 215 (Towson has an additional 23)
Austin has 213
Portland has 181
Pittsburgh has 170
Charlotte has 148
Las Vegas has 141
This a far more accurate representation of the cities
Austin really has this much more than Charlotte, and Nashville is really that close to Charlotte?
Austin really has this much more than Charlotte, and Nashville is really that close to Charlotte?
By official high-rise count (+35m) yep.
Austin has been on a development warpath and almost everything being built is new multi-unit development, while Nashville has a decent amount of pre-war buildings that Charlotte lacks
Colleges/Medical centers in city limits also help push numbers up
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