[forward looking]

San Antonio, tx has a fairly, nice skyline.
No commerce , no trade- no money, no industry, for skyscrapers in the desert. There are no industrial city-centers in the southwest like the northeast has. There is a shortage of raw materials too. Coal, copper, iron, water
( International shipping lanes) and oil deposits abound in the northeast in comparison to the southwest U.S.- Lumber abounds in the north also. All these raw materials were what fueled American industrial might and wealth a long time ago. The southwest has it's minerals.
The industrial might of Detroit is what won world war two. Detroit is called the arsenal of democracy for a good reason. Ford built the tallest skyscraper
in Michigan on the bank of the Detroit River and then G.M. bought it from Ford to locate their World Headquarters in. An eyewitness account places Jimmy Hoffa- buried there, under it. Seriously. This is the latest on that investigation.