[someone123]

It's pretty obvious there isn't demand for 40 storey skyscrapers all over the peninsula, but I don't think the spread out population in the hinterlands is very relevant either. What's more relevant is that there's a small but very desirable area that's hard to get in and out of.

When you look at the peninsula, highrises make a lot of sense. Most of the land area is not available for development because it is publicly-owned, built up more or less to its max zoning (these are the stable mostly single family areas), or has heritage buildings. There are very few opportunity sites downtown at this point. The North End is a bit different but there really isn't much land available.

I think this is why Halifax has lots of smaller highrises and why a lot of them are being built.

When you start to look at suburban land it's different. There's tons of supply. Lots of people don't want to live in greenfield suburbs though, and some who do prefer condo/highrise living.