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Originally Posted by portapetey
Trust me, I'm on your side and would love to see cool new highrise developments downtown, but I think it's very farfetched to imagine Halifax can sustain a large skyscraper city. We are just far too small and there aren't enough people to pack into many, if any, 50 and 60 story buildings.
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Exactly. The city doesn't lack megatall buildings because of development-stifling NIMBYism, it lacks them due to the fact that it has fewer than half a million people. I can't think of any cities in our size range with a lot of major highrises—even Hamilton, with a larger population and well within the economic orbit of the GTA, is basically on par with us for highrises. (It's highest buildings are a
bit higher, but I think we have more buildings over 200 ft).
This is partly why the whole Skye thing was ridiculous, or why calls to pack the Cogswell lands with 60-storey towers sound kinda...silly. Anyway, as I've said on here ad nauseam, I'm way more excited by all the infilling happening nowadays then I am by huge-ass buildings. Would rather see the city stitched together to be awesome at the street level than built up to the sky and look cool from a distance.