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Originally Posted by scrapin
Even with Toronto's massive downtown growth which is incredibly impressive I still think Toronto is a couple decades away from catching up to Chicago, and thats assuming downtown Chicago doesnt grow much...which I doubt. Theres no shame in being number 3 in USA/Canada.
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The vast majority of Toronto skyscraper proposals are realized. If that pattern repeats Toronto will be ahead of Chicago in every category but super talls by 2020. And even in super talls, we're really talking about 5 buildings. 5 very big buildings, but still. I crunched the number 6 months ago when another forum member posed the exact same question. Even I was surprised how close Toronto is getting.
That said, a city isn't measured by skyscrapers alone. Toronto is ahead by a good many metrics already. Passing Chicago in skyscrapers, population, and GDP are some of the last metrics left where Toronto still trails.
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