[texboy]

Im not talking just downtown though. If there is cheaper land outside the CBD say inside 410 or inside 1604...why aren't developers building highrises there? Profit potential is way higher than in the CBD. We are never going to be able to stop sprawl completely...but I don't see why developers aren't taking opportunities to build higher outside downtown, and I don't see how cities like San Antonio and its leaders can sit there and bitch and complain about how bad traffic is, and how our natural landscape is being depleted and then they do close to nothing about it! They say well we don't have the money for road improvements....well why not start creating districts...once again like Austins Second downtown....that relax height restrictions in order to get more denisity in different areas of the city. All you have to do is take a look at Vancouver to see that building highrises that are funtional, relatively cheap, and decent looking is not as hard as you think. And most of them aren't in the official CBD, but right outside of it.