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Originally Posted by scrapin
Even with Toronto's massive downtown growth which is incredibly impressive I still think Toronto is a couple decades away from catching up to Chicago, and thats assuming downtown Chicago doesnt grow much...which I doubt. Theres no shame in being number 3 in USA/Canada.
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The problem is we lack high quality high rise buildings.
The Chicago riverfront alone has more beautiful pre war highrises than Toronto. Toronto was royally screwed over by the Great D epression. It's depressing to look at some of the planned towers (Princess Towers, Vimy Circle, College Park, The Toronto Towers etc) Had these been built, Toronto would be objectively viewed as just as architecturally impressive as Montreal.
For this reason alone, I dont think we'll ever "catch up" to Chicago. No develop is willing to spend the money, except in the odd project like One Saint Thomas.
I know Ive made a similar post sometime in the past year and risk coming across as redundant, but too many people view city vs city as a numbers game.