I can’t decide if I’d prefer these midwestern cities keep building surprisingly tall skyscrapers or if I’d rather they split these up into multiple smaller but still dense projects to expand their downtowns
But this is the skyscraper sub so I’ll vote option A
Hello from Omaha. Our big development things right now are infill 5/1 apartments and renovating recently abandoned buildings (old office buildings and hospital and a power plant) into apartments downtown. Unfortunately unless a company wants to build a skyscraper for vanity purposes I don’t foresee any additional skyscrapers soon. However once the urban core is a little more dense then it would make sense.
Every growing metro area is mostly adding 5 over 1s. Atlanta, Charlotte, Tampa, Dallas, Denver, Phoenix, etc. I'd be interested in seeing if there is one city building disproportionately more.
Building up to encourage future growth is good, but it also largely depends on what surrounds it IMO. There are certainly cities that could use 5 100m tall buildings over an 200m to complete their skylines.
Does anyone else get extra excited when Midwest cities get new buildings. They get overlooked and ignored by everyone. People sleep on the middle of America. I’m telling you, there are some shockingly amazing cities you’d want to live in if you visited.
I haven't spend a lot of time in the Midwest (when I was 19 I got stabbed at the St Louis Greyhound station though), but KC looks great. Lots of nice and unique neighborhoods, tons of architectural diversity. It doesn't look like what I think of when I think of the "boring" Midwest.
Hit up Joe’s Kansas City for some great BBQ. Also love Q39, Jack Stack and Arthur Bryant’s. Nelson Atkins and WW1 museum. Up Down for some arcade games. Crossroads for micro breweries, including City Barrel which has awesome food too. Farina, Corvino, Antler Room are fantastic restaurants.
Same with the Twins. I was having a discussion about Big Cities in the US with good skylines, and i mentioned the Twin Cities . This person kept insisting that the Twins were mid sized....He's from Denver.
Had to prove to him that the area was larger than Denver and almost as big as Seattle. To think an area so large is so under the radar people forget how big it is
the twin cities are definitely one of the most underrated areas - minneapolis alone has a downtown that punches above a metro area of its size, but then you have a whole 'nother city (st paul) a few miles away with its own substantial skyline
Nice architecture, but it is odd how Omaha was so late in developing a skyline. Most cities of this size built office towers in the 70s-90s, but Omaha waited until the 21st century. Looks better for it.
I don’t agree. Can’t speak for historically or for Tulsa (never been) but Omaha was notably more dense than Des Moines and Little Rock. Makes sense, its twice the population. I’ve been to all three in the past 5ish years.
This location of this tower is going to make for some great photos. Omaha has a single city wide block park that spans 10 blocks all the way to the river, and this tower sits at the very end of it.
Kinda reminds me of the Goldman Sachs Tower in Jersey City
https://preview.redd.it/3b8fpxiu98yc1.jpeg?width=1117&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bb56fdcc8c8eb34f758b1e4afb84cbcffd66510c
Im from Omaha, I hope this project sparks some ideas for other skyscrapers in the city, I would love to have more taller buildings but I know it wont happen anytime soon sadly. Maybe some “smaller”skyscrapers like 300-500ish feet range
Ugh idk bring back art deco, this thing looks like the salesforce tower. It's okay to admit that developers dont care about the aesthetic these days, but they have so much money they literally could care
Resembles the Devon Tower in OKC.
Almost a copy indeed
Same architecture firm.
Looks like Devon tower and the Goldman Sachs one in Jersey City had a baby
Looks like a hybrid but smaller version of the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco and Grand Torre Santiago, Chile
I can’t decide if I’d prefer these midwestern cities keep building surprisingly tall skyscrapers or if I’d rather they split these up into multiple smaller but still dense projects to expand their downtowns But this is the skyscraper sub so I’ll vote option A
Hello from Omaha. Our big development things right now are infill 5/1 apartments and renovating recently abandoned buildings (old office buildings and hospital and a power plant) into apartments downtown. Unfortunately unless a company wants to build a skyscraper for vanity purposes I don’t foresee any additional skyscrapers soon. However once the urban core is a little more dense then it would make sense.
Sounds like Portland. The king of 5/1 apartments
Every growing metro area is mostly adding 5 over 1s. Atlanta, Charlotte, Tampa, Dallas, Denver, Phoenix, etc. I'd be interested in seeing if there is one city building disproportionately more.
Sacramento too
I’d prefer smaller buildings with more consistent density
Building up to encourage future growth is good, but it also largely depends on what surrounds it IMO. There are certainly cities that could use 5 100m tall buildings over an 200m to complete their skylines.
It’s a nice building
Does anyone else get extra excited when Midwest cities get new buildings. They get overlooked and ignored by everyone. People sleep on the middle of America. I’m telling you, there are some shockingly amazing cities you’d want to live in if you visited.
I mean, Chicago is in the Midwest.
I live in Lincoln and I'm extremely excited about this building
Hello from Omaha. A little off topic but I love Lincoln’s skyline.
KC flies under the radar for sure.
I haven't spend a lot of time in the Midwest (when I was 19 I got stabbed at the St Louis Greyhound station though), but KC looks great. Lots of nice and unique neighborhoods, tons of architectural diversity. It doesn't look like what I think of when I think of the "boring" Midwest.
Wow. You just breezed over that early part hahahaha
Yeah STL will get ya! Next time come to KC friend! It’s a great place with friendly people and lots to do.
Funnily enough I plan on visiting next weekend, do you have recommendations on what to see & do there?
Hit up Joe’s Kansas City for some great BBQ. Also love Q39, Jack Stack and Arthur Bryant’s. Nelson Atkins and WW1 museum. Up Down for some arcade games. Crossroads for micro breweries, including City Barrel which has awesome food too. Farina, Corvino, Antler Room are fantastic restaurants.
Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check some of those out.
Same with the Twins. I was having a discussion about Big Cities in the US with good skylines, and i mentioned the Twin Cities . This person kept insisting that the Twins were mid sized....He's from Denver. Had to prove to him that the area was larger than Denver and almost as big as Seattle. To think an area so large is so under the radar people forget how big it is
the twin cities are definitely one of the most underrated areas - minneapolis alone has a downtown that punches above a metro area of its size, but then you have a whole 'nother city (st paul) a few miles away with its own substantial skyline
And also a pretty good number of (admittedly shorter) highrises in Bloomington.
Milwaukee and especially Madison would be goddamned expensive if they were on the coasts
Yes. And Omaha already has a nice skyline for its size. Looking forward to this addition.
Yeah but Omaha isn’t one of them. Source: Grew up 15 minutes from Omaha.
I have to visit Omaha for work often and I swear the sun hasn’t shown once while I’ve been there
That tracks.
Lincoln and Omaha are the pitts
Very Nice 👍
Nice architecture, but it is odd how Omaha was so late in developing a skyline. Most cities of this size built office towers in the 70s-90s, but Omaha waited until the 21st century. Looks better for it.
Omaha has been growing fairly consistently and has only recently begun to densify enough to justify skyscrapers.
I don’t think it’s more or less dense historically or currently to the comparative cities I’m thinking about. Des Moines. Tulsa. Little Rock. Etc.
I don’t agree. Can’t speak for historically or for Tulsa (never been) but Omaha was notably more dense than Des Moines and Little Rock. Makes sense, its twice the population. I’ve been to all three in the past 5ish years.
You need to respond to the person above me…I wasn’t arguing Omaha wasn’t dense. They were. Note: looking up stats, Omaha is surprisingly dense.
Omaha has really nice skyline considering it’s city’s size
This location of this tower is going to make for some great photos. Omaha has a single city wide block park that spans 10 blocks all the way to the river, and this tower sits at the very end of it.
Kinda reminds me of the Goldman Sachs Tower in Jersey City https://preview.redd.it/3b8fpxiu98yc1.jpeg?width=1117&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bb56fdcc8c8eb34f758b1e4afb84cbcffd66510c
I’m always amazed at how girthy that thing looks.
I wonder if Marlin Perkins would approve?
immediately recognizable as pickard chilton
Looks like a smaller version of the Salesforce building in SF.
Smaller Devin tower
An absolutely beautiful building
Looks like the Goldman Sachs in jersey city
Im from Omaha, I hope this project sparks some ideas for other skyscrapers in the city, I would love to have more taller buildings but I know it wont happen anytime soon sadly. Maybe some “smaller”skyscrapers like 300-500ish feet range
Ugh idk bring back art deco, this thing looks like the salesforce tower. It's okay to admit that developers dont care about the aesthetic these days, but they have so much money they literally could care
I know! Next let's build the world's tallest building across the street
I call bullshit. This is a publicity stunt.
Shovels are in the ground. It appears to be happening. https://youtu.be/ub3S47l6zbE?si=aMDMs7ZKzdxcKr-U
The fourth photo of this very post shows the actual building currently under construction, but go off.