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Originally Posted by Arch City
Personally, I think, the exception being Chicago and it seems Minneapolis, the Midwest has a mindset that it doesn't build what it doesn't need.
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but that mindset wasn't in effect in the '70s/'80s/early '90s when just about all midwest cities were stumbling over each other trying to build a new tallest building for themselves.
just take another look at the 450' chart i posted on the previous page. back then there was an orgy of skyscraper construction across all of the midwest's major cities, then the commercial real estate crash of the early '90s brought a halt to skyscraper construction nationwide for many years. chicago eventually resumed large scale skyscraper construction in the '00s. the rest of the midwest didn't.
the midwest (outside of chicago) somehow lost its skyscraper swagger over the past two decades. i wish it would get it back.
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