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Originally Posted by the Genral
The river, the trees, that's what sets Austin apart from Dallas and Houston. They are both cities of tall and mostly beautiful skyscrapers densely packed surrounded by flat unattractive land and highways with some parks within. The types of skyscrapers within both those city's downtowns are true signature scrapers which separates those cities from Austin. I consider their buildings conventional. Austin is very eclectic and beginning to reach new heights. But it still suffers from second tier syndrome. We have a bunch of really nice buildings, and a bunch of stubby mehs. As long as we can get buildings like 5C, Republic, along with some of the nicer taller ones u/c, we can claim equality with Houston and Dallas on a skyline level. We're not there yet. We tend to line the river and Congress Avenue with our best, but until we start filling the gaps with 600' plus towers, we'll continue to have a really nice, but not great skyline. As far as San Antonio goes, it lacks a few tall glass shiny point towers, but I love that town just the way it is. Don't beat me up, these are just my opinions.
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Totalllllly agree with all of this! SA's skyline is iconic. It would be a travesty is say, Tower Life was covered by some stupid ass shake-n-bake condo project.
I think we'll get those 600' + projects that will propel us even further in that realm.
ATX: Do you mean 5C will meet the same fate as 21C???!