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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
Big towers make the biggest noise on sites like SSP.
It looks like Atlanta has been building a good amount of 20 and 30 story stuff lately, much to the excitement of the locals.
But it's been awhile since anything over 200m has been built in Atlanta, so outsider scraper-nerds aren't really paying as much attention to it as they are to an upstart city like Austin which now has a handful of 200m+ towers under construction, including a 300m+ one!
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This is an accurate account. Midtown planning, for various reasons, has been limiting developments to around 25 to 35 floors, although there is now a 61 story development in the works for midtown. A recently planned 70 story residence bit the pandemic dust (OPUS2). Nonetheless, construction activity in general is very pronounced across the metro area as the metro continues to gain population at a fairly high rate (seemingly not as high as the Texas cities, but outstripping the NE and Midwest cities). As we all know, population increase alone is not a reliable indicator of construction activity but just a component of the complexity of building activity as cities that are not gaining much population, and even those with stable or decreasing populations may still have high building activity.