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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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Right. JC, Downtown BK, LIC and the like are just extensions of a core. You have a NIMBY core with little available land, and one or two subway stops away, you have a less NIMBY geography with lots of available land. LIC or JC are to Manhattan as the South/West Loop are to the Loop.
Southfield (and Troy, Oakbrook and the like) has its equivalents in the NYC area, with office park areas like Piscataway. Those areas never developed true skylines. The suburban skylines in the NY area tend to be in older, established cities enveloped by sprawl (White Plains, Stamford, Norwalk, New Rochelle, Hackensack, New Brunswick, etc.). Outside of the Northeast, it's less common to have these really old cities surrounded by sprawl that became suburban office centers for professionals mostly living in sprawl. It never happened in places like Pontiac, Joliet, etc.