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Originally Posted by craigs
Well, the counter-argument would be that those towers in Clayton might have ended up being built in Nashville instead. With a half a percent growth rate since 2010, the entire St. Louis region is clearly hemorrhaging people and businesses.
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Well, Chicagoland actually has negative population growth for the decade, and yet it has built 9 new towers over 700' in the current building boom, so skyscraper construction and population growth don't always align.
In fact, KC, Indy, and Columbus are among the fastest growing major Midwest metro areas, yet they have
combined to build only 4 towers over 300' over the past 20 years. Meanwhile, stagnant Milwaukee has built 6 such towers over that timespan, and stagnant Cleveland has built 5, so.......