Facts & Figures

[urbanguy]

Hello, i was inspired by an SSP subforum to create a thread here about the total number of highrises 12+ approved, proposed, U/C in your city. All you have to do is list the total number approved + proposed + U/C = Total in your city and the tallest out of all. You may also list the number of buildings that have already been completed separately.

Honolulu City:

Completed: 431 *That have been counted so far

Total: 20 buildings

Tallest: 47 stories (residential) U/C

Suburbs:

Completed: 18 *That have been counted so far

Total: 2

Tallest: 13 stories (time-share) both U/C

*Some info was from Emporis others are from my own research.

[G W North]

Mississauga:

Completed: 197 (not bad for a suburb, huh?)

6 under construction

Tallest completed: 36 stories, 369 feet (it appears taller than 369 feet in person, but this is the height from skyscrapers.com)

Tallest under construction: 34 stories

[urbanguy]

^hehe yeah thats awesome for a suburb it has more 12+ buildings than a lot of cities

[ShowMeKC]

hey urban guy, can you say 120ft and up? b/c plenty of buildings in KC don't have 12 floors, but are well above the 120ft mark. Like our federal courthouse is about 300ft and is only 10-11 floors.

[urbanguy]

Sure that too thats fine

[Sean Reynolds]

We suck here in Salt Lake.

[Allan]

Detroit:

171 completed

2 approved

8 proposed

41 demolished

4 under reconstruction

I'll look up the suburbs' numbers during my next class.

[Allan]

Ok, here's the suburbs....

Southfield: 25 Completed

Royal Oak: 2 Completed

Birmingham: 1 Completed

Dearborn: 7 Completed

Troy: 10 Completed, 4 Proposed

I probably missed some, but that's the best I can do for now.

[urbanguy]

^Nah thats cool man, thanks btw is the Greektown Casio one of the approved or is it only a proposal?

Sean Reynolds, i thought you guys had a few projects proposed or ?

[swags]

We suck here in Salt Lake.

My english class was having a discussion about water usage and conservation and the trading of water, etc. and my teacher told me that Utah was one of the first states to go "dry". Meaning that they can only sustain the current population with the water they have, they cannot grow anymore. I don't know if that is a factor in Salt Lake's "suck"ing...

[urbanguy]

^No he really meant that they suck in Salt Lake. So if you like suckers thats the place to go according to Sean

[Allan]

^Nah thats cool man, thanks btw is the Greektown Casio one of the approved or is it only a proposal?

The casino is not approved, but the design is finished, and the site preparation has occured. The Detroit city council is slow, and has not yet approved the design, even though they've had years to.

[Sean Reynolds]

We've got three proposed high-rises.

But we still suck.

[PghUSA]

176 skyscrapers

but the invasion of Cleveland is underway so we should be adding lots more phaylic symbols to our collection! (they are so weak and helpless since they have no weapons of war like 4 mighty lombardi trophies or 5 mighty world series trophies and no stanley cups or National College Football Championship trophies to defend their tiny burgh)

[urbanguy]

Okay i guess they found a couple more buildings so now the completed for Honolulu is 433 so far everything else i had mentioned is still the same!

[waz]

Here are the stats for Australian cities:

Sydney:

756 completed

28 under construction

28 approved

30 proposed

19 never built

44 demolished

1 on hold

7 under reconstruction

TOTAL-913

Melbourne:

414 completed

35 under construction

73 approved

12 proposed

15 never built

4 demolished

1 on hold

2 under reconstruction

TOTAL-556

Brisbane:

185 completed

14 under construction

2 approved

9 proposed

13 never built

2 demolished

1 on hold

total-228

Gold Coast:

218 completed

26 under construction

7 approved

17 proposed

1 never built

1 demolished

Perth:

94 completed

5 under construction

15 approved

9 proposed

12 never built

2 demolished

1 under reconstruction

total-138

Stats curtesy of 'CULWALLA" taken from similar forum page

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.p...71&page=2&pp=20

[swags]

I'll do Canada's largest cities...

Toronto

52 under construction

1,589 completed

116 approved

117 proposed

31 never built

7 demolished

1 on hold

Total: 1913

Montreal

15 under construction

386 completed

16 approved

12 proposed

4 never built

3 demolished

2 on hold

6 under reconstruction

Total: 444

Vancouver

29 under construction

501 completed

16 approved

24 proposed

5 never built

4 demolished

1 on hold

Total: 580

Ottawa-Hull

9 under construction

290 completed

8 approved

4 proposed

Total: 292

Calgary

6 under construction

191 completed

10 approved

5 proposed

Total: 212

Edmonton

8 under construction

224 completed

6 approved

17 proposed

17 never built

1 demolished

1 vision

1 under reconstruction

Total: 275

[Wendell FOX]

Since Toronto has already been done, I'll do the suburb that I live in + my closest regional city:

Burlington, Ontario - Emporis says 36 high-rises completed but I'd bet there's more than that

Hamilton - 105 completed, 2 U/C, 1 proposed according to Emporis

[urbanguy]

Actually i think it would be better if you guys left out demolished, never built or maybe even reconstruction? Those on hold is okay cause there's that possiblity that they might get built.

[Ivory Tower]

Isn't a building a highrise with 10 or 11 floors ?

I mean, why not start at 10 even or 100 ft even ?

Besides, different buildings have different heights, so one building with less floors could be taller than the other.

I'm not suggesting this to up Detroits rank, I could care less.

But, it would also give other citys more.

It just makes more sense to start at an even 100 ft. or 10 stories, which ever comes first.

The way I see it is...A skyscraper is different than highrise.

But I see people calling 12 or 13 storie buildings, skyscrapers.

This is how I would organize the category.

Skyscraper_250 ft. and or 20 stories and up.

Highrise(19th century skyscraper standards)_100 ft. and or 10 stories and up to...

Midrise(those odd buildings that are taller than average buildings, but not quite a highrise)_50 ft. and or 5 stories and up to...

Lowrise_everyday houses and buildings and so forth.

This way seems more simple and makes mores sense imo.

[cityboi]

Greensboro has 20 total high-rise buildings that vary between 9 and 28 stories. 11 of them are downtown. 6 are near downtown. 3 are near the outer edge of Greensboro.

one is proposed (new 15-18 story downtown federal courthouse)

There are rumors of a 12 story building being built near the airport

and there are rumors of a proposed downtown high-rise apartment tower near the future ballpark.

[Cotuit]

Providence, Rhode Island

When reading these numbers remember, there is a reason we are called the biggest little state in the union.

25 Buildings over 12 stories

Tallest:

The Fleet Bank Building*

AKA: The Superman Building, AKA: Industrial Trust Building, AKA: Industrial National Bank Building

428 feet, 26 stories, completed in 1928

2nd Tallest:

Fleet Boston Building*

AKA: Hospital Trust Tower, AKA: Bankboston Tower

410 feet, 26 stories, completed in 1973

3rd Tallest:

Westin Providence

329 feet, 25 stories, completed in 1993

4 Building over 12 stories proposed

GTECH World Headquarters

Parcel 2 (3 Buildings)

There is a much less defined proposal for a second convention centre hotel which could be 20 stories or more if built.

*With the BofA takeover of Fleet I have no idea what will happen to the names of these buildings. Fleet no longer owns either building and I don't know if they currently retain naming rights for them. There is a 3rd building on Kennedy Plaza officially called Fleet Centre but commonly reffered to a One Financial Centre.