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Originally Posted by mcgrath618
There are several 500'ers currently going up or in the works. Just in the last five years we've had The Laurel, Arthaus, W Hotel, and the FMC building. In the pipeline we have 117 s 19th, the Schuylkill Yards tower (and possibly future towers), several Penn's Landing towers, and a CHoP building that just barely misses 500'.
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^ And the Broad & Lombard tower.
And based on a quick Wikipedia search, current skyscraper construction in Philadelphia (total buildings and height) is comparable to Boston, San Fran, Houston, Dallas.
The only standouts appear to be New York (obvious), Chicago, Miami, and Austin.
But yea, I get the point of tower heights being slashed when they could certainly accommodate more units/floors. For example, The Harper on Chestnut, and 1919 Market should be more like 40 floors instead of 24 & 28. But I don't know how the math works... so I assume there is logic when determining floor counts.