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Originally Posted by locolife
I'm from SLC and always cheer for it to do well, enjoy all the great progress downtown. But I have to throw some love out to Phoenix, as my new hometown for a long time now. The SLC CSA has about 3 million and Phoenix has about 5 million, so PHX is about 1.7x the size of SLC. It's bigger here but not that much bigger and it wasn't all that long ago that SLC was larger than Phoenix but it's grown fast in the valley of the sun.
At 1.7x the population size
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This comes off as cherry picking to me. Phoenix CSA is 5 million while SLC CSA is 2.6 million, so it's more like 1.9x. Phoenix metro is 4.8 million while SLC metro is 1.2 million, 4x larger. Phoenix proper is 1.6 million while SLC proper is 200k, 8x larger. Phoenix proper represents 32% of its CSA population. SLC proper is only 7.7% of its CSA.
The last number is really noteworthy. The SLC government has barely more political influence than any other city on the Wasatch Front thanks to its limited geographical boundaries.
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Originally Posted by locolife
SLC
- 4 additional buildings over 200' either proposed, under review or approved.
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SLC has 6-7 publicly proposed buildings above 200 ft, not 4. So if Phoenix has 14, the two cities are building 200+ ft towers at about the same rate (normalized by CSA population).
Austin and Nashville are the real boomtowns in the US.