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Originally Posted by iheartthed
I don't think it's really that common outside of the Midwest either, tbh. Southfield and Clayton seem like nationwide anomalies. In the case of Southfield, those were all towers that theoretically should have been built in downtown Detroit, and they were built at the expense of expanding Detroit's skyline. Whereas Jersey City, LIC, and downtown Brooklyn are just direct extensions of development patterns emanating from Manhattan.
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Seems fairly common in the sunbelt and west. Just as an FY Clayton, MO is on the edge/inside of the pre-war urban core and its downtown is surrounded by pre-war housing and apartments.
Was just in Tempe - which heretofore I thought of as a college town - which has this intensifying office building, institutional and residential tower/lowrise overlay served by streetcar and light rail.