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Originally Posted by chicubs111
I'm only comparing to NYC because actually if you look at the building booms in 80's , 90's and early 2000's that Chicago had there was a much closer relative comparison to NYC... normally NYC was doing double or close to that of what chicago did... if Chicago had 10 building over 500ft at any single time under construction NYC had 20 or 25... now that ratio is like 3 or 4 times which is why i made the statement of either Chicago under-performing (or NYC just ridiculously on fire  ) |
I’m sure Amsterdam or Venice has a much bigger market for houseboats than Chicago, too. The NYC “pencil tower” is a building type that only makes sense for the economic and physical conditions of NYC. Of course we are not going to have any over here.
Even London or Dubai doesn’t have them, despite having a huge pool of global-elite buyers, because London won’t permit buildings that tall and Dubai doesn’t have any space constraints forcing tall buildings to be thin.