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Originally Posted by trueviking
hang on...grand rapids would be the 4th largest city in canada?!....seriously?...its bigger than calgary, ottawa and edmonton?...twice the size of winnipeg?...grand rapids?....i had no idea.
awesome building there though.
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Viking Dude:
Grand Rapids may have the larger metro population, but Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg have much more dense downtowns and started out building highrises much more early than GR. GR has only been going major-league vertical since as recently as the 1980s.
It's ironic how a Canadien urban dude would vibe on GR's JW Marriott tower when THIS GR-USA dude looks at Canada's Edmonton, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto as highrise inspiration for GR (along with Chicago, Miami, Hong Kong, Boston, Minneapolis, Shanghai, Houston and Seattle, of course).