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Posted on 6/9/17 at 4:02 pm to Will Cover
Seattle is worst than that. Counted over 20 cranes one day building high rises.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 4:04 pm to Will Cover
Holy shite that pyramid shaped top building moved.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 4:05 pm to Loubacca
It sucks. Too many people...Great city but it's now overcrowded and expensive.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 4:05 pm to tigerbutt
If you use the way back on google street view, there are some areas where the changes are pretty stark, but nothing on this scale. Downtown has added several buildings (including IBM and a handful of hotels) formerly on surface parking lots. There's a couple more large projects going up now off 6th street plus the insane devolopment along Nicholson towards LSU. Baton Rouge was a scooby doo ghost town in many places 20 years ago, so the biggest developments over the last decade have been renovating abandoned buildings like the Hilton Capital Center, the Renaissance Hotel, the Holiday Inn Downtown, and the Commerce Building:
This post was edited on 6/9/17 at 4:08 pm
Posted on 6/9/17 at 4:06 pm to Cooter Davenport
Not to mention you gotta rub elbows with those government officials in the capital, which leads to at least a small office here.
This post was edited on 6/9/17 at 4:07 pm
Posted on 6/9/17 at 4:07 pm to ghost2most
quote:wish we could say that about NOLA
It sucks. Too many people...Great city but it's now overcrowded and expensive.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 4:08 pm to kingbob
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There's a couple more large projects going up now off 6th street plus the insane devolopment along Nicholson towards LSU.
If BR could ever get some mid to high end residential development going in that area between downtown and LSU it would be a game changer.
It's such an oddly developed city.
This post was edited on 6/9/17 at 4:09 pm
Posted on 6/9/17 at 4:09 pm to chalmetteowl
New Orleans has a good population size.
It just has too many not doing anything and too many tourist jobs.
I'm not sure if any city quite strikes a good balance in that mid-size range, and of course, New Orleans is very unique from a cultural perspective, perhaps detrimentally so. I haven't been to Nashville in many years as a kid, but my brother in law lives there so I guess I can grade it out.
It just has too many not doing anything and too many tourist jobs.
I'm not sure if any city quite strikes a good balance in that mid-size range, and of course, New Orleans is very unique from a cultural perspective, perhaps detrimentally so. I haven't been to Nashville in many years as a kid, but my brother in law lives there so I guess I can grade it out.
This post was edited on 6/9/17 at 4:12 pm
Posted on 6/9/17 at 4:11 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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If BR could ever get some mid to high end residential development going in that area between downtown and LSU it would be a game changer. It's such an oddly developed city
BR was weird when I was there 2003-2007. It made no sense to me how there would be large empty undeveloped land between developments. Some have filled in like all those apartments around Ben-Hur, etc since though.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 4:12 pm to Will Cover
half the building in the 2010 pic are newer than 2000, maybe even 2005
Posted on 6/9/17 at 4:12 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
The thing that actually really no bullshite does genuinely suck about Austin is the cost of water. It's completely insane. The affordability problem isn't home PRICES it's property taxes and water bill. Something people in other cities just take for granted, but it'll bankrupt you here.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 4:13 pm to TRUERockyTop
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he Nashville metro is the #1 growing area in Tennessee
Setting up new job interviews right now
Posted on 6/9/17 at 4:16 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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BR was weird when I was there 2003-2007. It made no sense to me how there would be large empty undeveloped land between developments. Some have filled in like all those apartments around Ben-Hur, etc since though.
Much of the land in the parish was in the hands of a few old families. Now that most of those patriarchs have died off, their children are selling out to developers, so the empty spaces are being filled in finally.
The big empty area between Lee and Jennifer Jean was the result of oil and gas extraction on that land. Now that the well is tapped out, that area is rapidly being developed.
There's reason for a lot of optimism around Baton Rouge, but we could not have elected a race-baiting mayor at a more inopportune time. She has the ability to completely torpedo all of the progress this town has made since the mid 90's when Governor Foster started moving the state government offices downtown and Spanish Town was gentrified.
Baton Rouge had much of the momentum punched out of its lungs with the August Floods, but Mid City gentrification, the Nicholson Gateway, and Downtown urbanization all seem to at least still be pushing forward despite idiots on all sides looking to torpedo any and all progress.
This post was edited on 6/9/17 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 6/9/17 at 4:16 pm to Will Cover
Impressive
Posted on 6/9/17 at 4:19 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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BR was weird when I was there 2003-2007. It made no sense to me how there would be large empty undeveloped land between developments. Some have filled in like all those apartments around Ben-Hur, etc since though.
It just never made sense to me how the two centerpieces of the city (downtown and LSU) are separated by two miles of ghetto wasteland. It's always struck me as horribly sad.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 4:22 pm to Cooter Davenport
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The thing that actually really no bull shite does genuinely suck about Austin is the cost of water. It's completely insane. The affordability problem isn't home PRICES it's property taxes and water bill. Something people in other cities just take for granted, but it'll bankrupt you here.
I'd have to look at my old Sewage and Water Board bills from NO if I could, but if I recall correctly my bills would run about 50 to 80 but that included trash pickup which doubled from $20 to $40 I think.
So correcting for that , ya, my Austin bill is about $120 something.
I love all the line items:
Water Service: $$$
Wastewater Service: $$$
Solid Waste Service (trash): $$$
Clean Community Service: $$$
Drainage Service: $$$
Street Service: $$$
This post was edited on 6/9/17 at 4:23 pm
Posted on 6/9/17 at 4:23 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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So correcting for that , ya, my Austin bill is about $120 something.
I don't know if I'm unusual, but that's about what I'm paying in New Orleans these days.
Posted on 6/9/17 at 4:24 pm to Will Cover
Crazy growth - Austin MSA population:
2000 1.25 MM
2010 1.71 MM
2015 2.01 MM
2020 2.30 MM (Projected)
2030 3.04 MM (Projected)
Also San Antonio is expected to hit 3 million by 2030 as the two cities form one mega metro...
2000 1.25 MM
2010 1.71 MM
2015 2.01 MM
2020 2.30 MM (Projected)
2030 3.04 MM (Projected)
Also San Antonio is expected to hit 3 million by 2030 as the two cities form one mega metro...
Posted on 6/9/17 at 4:25 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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It just never made sense to me how the two centerpieces of the city (downtown and LSU) are separated by two miles of ghetto wasteland. It's always struck me as horribly sad.
i still have one one day this will be developed
but
you know what's going to happen if that occurs
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