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Originally Posted by Dariusb
The skyline looks great now but when these are built it'll really be smoking. It'll surpass Charlotte soon if not already.
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It'll be awhile before we surpass Charlotte. Charlotte has a lot of construction activity as well, and they have a huge head start against us as seen below.
Height Range - Charlotte # - Austin #
Completed (inc. JW, Colorado Tower, & Bowie):
800-900 - 1 - 0
700-800 - 1 - 0
600-700 - 2 - 1
500-600 - 2 - 2
400-500 - 7 - 5
300-400 - 10 - 16
Austin has a bunch of 400 foot roof buildings (I include Fairmont here despite the "spire") in the works and under construction, as well as a perhaps 700+ building and an unknown height building that'll be substantial. Charlotte, however, also has a good number of tall buildings in the works. 201 Trade, for instance, is 601'. Other 300'+ projects include the Bearden, Skyhouse #2, 300 South Tryon, Tryon Place, etc. They don't have
as many projects certainly, but because they're starting from such a higher baseline with their current tall builds and because their skyline is more clustered and tight knit, it's visually more striking. Austin has a
lot of empty spots to fill and needs substantially more height (I.E. we need a tower in the 700-800 foot range (fingers crossed with the Independent) and the 800-900 foot range (I'd love for the development just south of the Fairmont to be consolidated into a single building for height, but that's obviously not going to happen) before it catches Charlotte.