73% of America's 21st century 500+ footers have been built in just 3 metros
digging through the SSP diagrams recently, i came to realize that the list of US 500+ footers* built/under construction since the start of this century is dominated by just 3 metro areas: NYC, Miami, and Chicago.
here's the breakdown by metro area (includes 21st century completed & U/C 500+ footers):
US total - 226
new york - 79 (35%)
miami - 45 (20%)
chicago - 40 (18%)
las vegas - 12
atlanta - 7
houston - 7
san francisco - 5
seattle - 4
austin - 3
boston - 3
charlotte - 3
philadelphia - 3
atlantic city - 2
los angeles - 2
cincinnati - 1
dallas - 1
denver - 1
mobile - 1
oklahoma city - 1
omaha - 1
pittsburgh - 1
portland - 1
raleigh - 1
st. louis - 1
virginia beach - 1
NYC & chicago have long dominated US skyscraper construction, but it appears that miami has now joined that elite group.
(*) there's nothing super magical about 500 feet, but for those of us nerds who have been doing the online skyscraper thing since the early days of the internet back in the '90s, we all fondly remember Marshall Gerometta's "Hot 500 list" which was likely the first website in history that attempted to track global construction of all buildings over 500 feet, so 500 feet just kinda became a nice round cut-off number for us old-timers.
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Last edited by Steely Dan; Apr 2, 2014 at 5:15 PM.
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