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Originally Posted by Austinlee
Having been a realtor for close to 10 years in suburban Pittsburgh, suburban growth at this point is a different game than the last 50 years. It used to be easy to buy a farm with 100 or more acres 25 miles from the city center and plop down a couple hundred tract houses but now it is nearly impossible to find remaining large tracts.
I noticed a trend where a developer will buy a smaller piece of land, say 20-40 acres or many times much less off the back of a pre-existing 1950's development of brick ranch homes or whatever, and build a small new development. So you drive into what looks like a mid-century plan and you get to the very back and there are a few small dead end streets with larger new construction homes, like 2,500-3,500 sq ft homes in a neighborhood where the average house size was 1,000-1,500 sq ft.
There are still large new developments of luxury homes that seem to be getting farther and farther out.
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that's fascinating. st. louis city and county have boomed straight west, generally, so that almost isn't possible. i think the edge of suburbia is about 45 miles from downtown.
in illinois new development has leapfrogged out of the mississippi river valley onto the uplands so again, what you describe doesn't really happen except for maybe alton, illinois.
we do have some teardown stuff happening in pre war but suburban neighborhoods.
however, a lot of the new tract subdivisions around st. louis are so far out west that they are on the fucking plains or south/ southwest that they are basically in a hilltop nashville style cul-de-sac in a southern type forest. it's absurd.