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Old Posted Mar 20, 2014, 4:09 PM
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^ yeah, milwaukee has been pretty decent with highrise construction so far this century, and with NML's tower a for sure thing and the Couture's future looking brighter with the legislation the state has passed to get the land out of legal limbo, those two new 500 footers popping up will dramatically change milwaukee's skyline.
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Great list JPIllinois!

Columbus actually has a 12 story mixed-use building under construction along South High Street:

http://www.columbusunderground.com/f...ed-for-high-st

I was all set to mention Duluth's new "tower" too, but it comes in at 11-stories. A new office HQ for Maurices. Here it is anyway.

http://tcbmag.com/News/Recent-News/2...th-HQ-(With-Im

I wouldn't be surprised if Rochester adds a few more high-rises in the next few years.
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^yeah, it's a little weird to think of clayton as having nearly half as many 12+ story buildings as indianpolis. maybe the stats are off?

i will say that out of the 9 of the 10 major midwest cities i have visited (i still haven't ever made it out to KC unfortunately), indy did come across as the least structurally dense. and there also aren't any secondary nodes of highrises there like you can find in some other midwest cities (CWE in st. louis, the plaza in KC, highrises stretching north along milwaukee's lakeshore, etc.)
you should really make it out to kansas city, i think you would find it interesting. historically its sort of functioned as a satellite of chicago, both within the costra nostra (being affiliated with the outfit), and commerce/rail, as sort of a way to bookend the western influence of st. louis with chicago affiliated interests.

structurally, it came to prominence about the same time as indianapolis, but has multiple nodes like st. louis. it was also (partially) founded on a river, but is every bit the rail town.
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KC started construction of the new 25 floor Condo/Apt tower 1 Light.

http://kcrag.com/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=18191&start=300
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^ that looks like it will be a good project for downtown KC, but it isn't really apropos to the subject of this thread abut the recent dearth in our region of truly tall skyline-redefining buildings being built.

25 story condo towers are great, and all downtowns benefit from the construction of such projects, which bring people and their money to the city core to create more urban life and vibrancy. however, my point in creating this thread was to show how the nationwide skyscraper building booms of the 80s/early 90s and of the past 14 years greatly differed with regard to the construction of really tall buildings in Midwestern cities.
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Glad to see something reasonably tall going up in KC! I think there will be a few in Minneapolis starting over the next year or so.
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Outside of Chicago which has completely lapped all other major metros in the midwest with 222 highrises Since 2000 :
Minneapolis is the clear runner up for adding 21 buildings that qualify for highrise status according to SSP definition.
Then Milwaukee with 16 and Madison with 13. St.L, KC and Indy are tied for 4th with 10 highrises.
Super Subs Evanston, Clayton and Windsor showing new millennium momentum.
Notable that Detroit has 6 new highrises but 3 are 12+ floors of parking decks and 2 are Casinos.
Southfield ad St.Paul have lost momentum since 1999.
For all of the good press that Des Moines gets for it's economy, it is not reflected in highrises.

All Data from SSP - Sorted by: UC/Site prep>00-14>Total 12+

City       12 Fl+   Since'80 '80-'99 '00-'14 UC+Prep
Chicago 1151 383 161 222 20
Minneapolis 155 62 41 21 2
Pittsburgh 127 25 19 6 2
Cincinnati 92 31 25 6 2
Milwaukee 88 30 14 16 1
Madison 27 15 2 13 0
St. Louis 115 26 16 10 0
Kansas City 110 25 15 10 0
Indianapolis 60 29 19 10 0
Clayton, Mo 26 14 5 9 0
Cleveland 110 32 24 8 0
Columbus 71 27 20 7 0
WindsorOntCA 18 11 4 7 0
Evanston, IL 13 8 1 7 0
Detroit 131 23 17 6 0
Louisville 42 14 10 4 0
Bloomington, MN 21 12 8 4 0
Omaha 37 8 5 3 0
Grand Rapids 11 7 4 3 0
Rochester, MN 14 8 6 2 0
Covington, KY 9 5 3 2 0
Schaumburg, IL 8 6 4 2 0
Ann Arbor 8 2 0 2 0
St. Paul 33 11 10 1 0
Southfield, MI 27 9 8 1 0
Des Moines 24 7 6 1 0
Dayton 23 3 2 1 0
Troy, MI 8 8 7 1 0
Akron 18 2 2 0 0
Toledo 16 5 5 0 0
Duluth, MN 13 1 1 0 0
OakBrook/Terrace8 5 5 0 0
Cedar Rapids,IA 8 1 1 0 0
Ft Wayne 8 1 1 0 0

I would be interested in seeing how density of high rise construction correlates to new builds over the past decade. For instance, in Metro Detroit you had a significant amount of high rise construction outside of the traditional high rise district since 1980 that was spread over places like Southfield and Troy. Compare that to Chicago which apparently had minimal high rise construction outside of the city during the same time period.
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^ according to the SSP database:



highrises built and U/C since 2000 by MSA:


CHICAGOLAND: 245

chicago - 226
burbs - 19


METRO DETROIT: 20

detroit - 15*
burbs - 5


(*) the city of detroit number includes 6 highrise parking garages, without those the numbers would stand at 9 vs. 5 for city vs. burbs.
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will cleveland join milwaukee and bring hope to the midwest for more 500+ footers?

fingers thoroughly crossed.


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CLEVELAND - nuCLEus - 30+/- Floors, ~500 Feet

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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Developer Robert Stark wowed the city's planning commission Friday morning, easily winning unanimous conceptual approval for a proposed, $250-million to $350-million development he calls nuCLEus that could transform a moribund part of downtown near the Gateway sports complex. The commission voted 6-0 to approve Stark's early diagrammatic plan and a proposal for tax increment financing in which the city would allow the non-school portion of increased real estate tax revenue from the project to help finance project debt.

The nuCLEus project - whose name is a play on the idea of the central role it intends to play downtown - would be located primarily on two blocks sandwiched by Prospect Avenue and Huron Road, just north of the Q and east of East 4th Street. It would encompass 120,000 to 140,000 square feet of retail, a 150- to 200-room hotel, 200,000 square feet of office space, 500 residential units and 1,500 to 1,600 parking spaces in garage levels stacked above street-level restaurants and stores.

More at: http://www.cleveland.com/architectur...leus_proj.html


and i'm still waiting for minneapolis to get something tall up into the sky one of these years. come on minneapolis, you're not gonna let milwaukee and cleveland upstage you, are you?
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Twin 17-story residential towers + a mini mall with 100 shops is being planned for the Superior Plating site in the East Bank commercial district in Minneapolis.
that's certainly a nice project for that area of minneapolis, but at only 17 floors, it's not really pertinent to this thread, which is specifically about the dearth of 500+' skyscrapers built in midwest cities so far this century.
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^Oops, yes. I put it in the wrong thread (I had multiple tabs open).

More pertinent is that the TCF bank site in downtown Minneapolis is still in the planning stage. The footprint is small but the developer is looking at a building up to 600,000 sq. ft. There is a story here from earlier this summer about the development team.
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A proposal to the city has been made for a new 900-foot mixed-use tower in Minneapolis. Offices + 220 apartments + 250-room hotel. Developer Alex Duval is working with architecture firms Perkins and Will, Adolfson and Peterson and Cuningham Group. This is one of 4 competing proposals for the block just north of Cesar Pelli's Hennepin County Central Library.





The base of the tower will have an arcade with operable glass panels that will open during warm weather.

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Looks like Minneapolis has some big plans finally....Taking this "height challenged" stuff to heart!!
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if this 900' proposal goes forward and gets built, it would not only be a new tallest in minneapolis, it would be a new tallest in the midwest outside of chicago by roof height.

the current tallest in the midwest outside of chicago, by both pinnacle and roof height, is cleveland's key tower which stands 947' to the top of its spire and 888' to its roof, so it would still be number one by pinnacle height even if this minneapolis 900 footer is built as currently envisioned.
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Steely, don't you think this thread and the "Midwest Highrise Construction" thread which is stickied are basically redundant? We're essentially discussing the same thing in both threads, why not just combine them?
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Steely, don't you think this thread and the "Midwest Highrise Construction" thread which is stickied are basically redundant?
no. this thread is specifically about the dearth of 500+ footers in the midwest over the last 2 decades.
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Another view of the Nicollet Gateway Tower from the StarTribune.

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Love the height!! No suprize here.... Right?
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new info and renderings released yesterday for cleveland's nuCLEus project. it looks dynamite!

647 FT - 54 Floors



source: http://www.cleveland.com/business/in...l#incart_river
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