Obadno |
Jan 11, 2018 6:13 AM |
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Originally Posted by Freeway
(Post 8043093)
Phoenix doesn't the industry or geographical layout to support a 500 foot building. Who needs a 500 foot tall call center? Mobile, with a population less than that of Gilbert, has a 745 footer. Population does not always equate to height of the skyline.
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First of all, we don’t live in 1992 Phoenix has a lot more going on in its buisness world beyond call centers and has one of the fastest growing financial industries (traditional tower builders) in the country.
The reason there has been no new tall building in Phoenix is because there was no demand in the core where tall buildings get built.
Companies, like residents, choose to locate in urban locations because they want to be in an urban area, if they don’t care about being in an urban area they’ll locate in suburban office parks and that’s true in any city in the country.
We didn’t have a desirable downtown neighborhiod until very very recently
For the first time ever you have a fledgling downtown with nightlife and residents and a steady stream of new tenants both commercial and otherwise. You’ll get tall towers when big name tenants with deep pockets want to spend the money to locate in a downtown, there is no way in hell any company was going to do that between 1970 and 2015 in Phoenix.
15 years ago downtown was little more than a ghost town with half empty buildings we almost got somewhere in 2007/8 but then the econemy crashed.
But if you think mobile Alabama has an econemy more suited to skyscrapers than Phoenix you are out of your mind.
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