[ChiRaz]

I originally wanted to post this on the Salesforce Tower thread when folks were complaining about the height reduction (but it got locked!), but the above posts reminded me of it, especially the post mentioning that the current Chicago boom is not producing many buildings in the current world's 300 tallest. China, Dubai, NYC, etc. - those are simply in a different class, as mentioned and discussed thoroughly on this forum. Let's just look at the US for a little perspective. I took a spin through the Emporis database and looked at “existing" and "under construction" buildings in 13 other US cities (other than NY of course - that’s in a league of its own and would be too depressing to list(!)). Take the proposed Salesforce Tower coming in at 844’. If built, it would currently be tied for 14th highest in Chicago and only the 6th building of 844” or higher built in the city in the last 28 years since 1990. The below height rankings do not take into account for planned projects or projects that have not started construction (and, aside from the many here in Chicago, as you will see, there really aren’t that many planned buildings in all of these other cities below that are >844’ - listed as “planned” on Emporis). If we use the OCS height, this list would be even more illustrative (to lazy to update!). Bottom line, this current cycle in Chicago is pretty darn sweet!

An 844’ high building would rank the as the following tallest building in the following cities (in the parentheticals, I list the # of >844" buildings built in that city since 1990 and, if applicable the # planned per Emporis):

Chicago: Tie 14th highest (with Park Tower) (# of >844ft since 1990: 6; planned >844ft: 5)

L.A.: 4th highest (# of >844ft since 1990: 1; planned >844ft: 2)

Houston: 4th highest (# of >844ft since 1990: 0)

Philadelphia: 5th highest (# of >844ft since 1990: 3) - note, 4th highest=848 ft

Dallas: 3rd highest (# of >844ft since 1990: 0)

San Fran: 4th highest (# of >844ft since 1990: 2)

Charlotte: 2nd highest (# of >844ft since 1990: 1)

Seattle: 3rd highest (# of >844ft since 1990: 1; planned >844ft: 1) - note, 2nd highest=849 ft

Atlanta: 3rd highest (# of >844ft since 1990: 2)

Denver: tallest

Boston: tallest

Detroit: tallest; planned >844ft: 1

Indianapolis: tallest

Cleveland: 2nd highest (# of >844ft since 1990: 1)