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As far as skyline "synchronicity"
I'm not into the Mobile vs. the world thing being from Pensacola and generally just glad to see progress along our coast. But I don't get the bother people have with buildings out of character springing up in downtown areas. No city gets perfectly even planned development unless you can find a communist system that works. The Empire State Building should never have been built using planned development logic. That is the all time #1 misplaced building for its time. It worked out ok for NYC and the rest of us.
The Westin in Atlanta was pretty off-scale with the rest of the cityscape when I was a kid. Nothing grows as perfect little planned blocks on some idealist's computer. Real life, real people and real economic decisions make things do what they do and I personally find that as wonderful as the skyscrapers that rise. The great thing is how they inspire more and better things to follow.
Of course, if you want mismanaged, do-gooder, keep it all out, lets make it impossible for our kids to stay here after graduation, non-progressive uniformity and scale...come to downtown Pensacola today or 50 years from now. It'll be the same absurd place. In 50 years, the RSA Tower will simply be the standard a number of other newer, better Mobile towers will successfully measure themselves against. Good for Mobile.
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