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Originally Posted by dc_denizen
Downtown is a secondary issue here
Generally in the us the cities that are adding the most urban format infill midrises are those with the highest rate of increasing urbanity.
Houston inner loop, dc, Austin, portland, Chicago west loop, Minneapolis are at the forefront of this trend.
In the Midwest, maybe Columbus.
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But these aren't equivalent to prewar urbanity. Dallas has probably built like 50k in-town units, but doesn't appear notably more urban than earlier. It's more like dense suburbia imported to low-value core land to serve demographic trends like later family formation and less money for down payments. It's Phase 1 to the eventual Plano McMansion.
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Originally Posted by dc_denizen
Meanwhile Milwaukee’s downtown, St. Louis central west end, and Cincinnati’s OTR are architecturally extraordinary. But they lack the new investments in sufficient numbers to make these assets yield the benefits they should.
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They're underutilized, yes. But they have the requisite bones, which are irreplaceable and unreplicable.