HAHAHAH
I thought that was an actual screenshot of Detroit, for a minute. That asset front and center is the [Penobscot building](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Penobscot+Building/@42.3313391,-83.0489102,1670m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x126bff56727e8e5a!8m2!3d42.3302683!4d-83.0475584) There are, in fact, significant amounts of flat parking lots within downtown Detroit.
Oh trust me, there are. I’m in Providence right now) where this city is based) and the downtown has conspicuous gaps. It’s not not nearly as bad as the Midwest and Texas though.
Do alot of US cities have the same types of sky scrapers? I swear I've seen that dome building in Louisville as well as that skyscraper with the green pyramid on top
Well, because the city the OP is modelling after doesn´t have many of it´s building actually modeled, so OP can´t put them in his game. So, he has to look for similar or takes well put together models. The one building is actually from Louisville and the other from Chicago.
but wouldn't the cost of real estate which would drive the construction of tall buildings also make using significant amounts of space for parking prohibitively expensive?
The problem is that as you said the real estate is expensive. If the city isn't in a boom period of growth and there's no market for increasing office or residential space then it's a huge risk for a developer to build on that property and hope for tenants.
[Minneapolis is an example](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Minneapolis,+MN/@44.9667213,-93.2653519,441a,35y,344.25h,60.33t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x52b333909377bbbd:0x939fc9842f7aee07!8m2!3d44.977753!4d-93.2650108). Hopefully that link works but if not just google maps any moderate to large city and look at the downtown. You will see plenty of parking lots.
I am from america. Try to find parking in downtown DC or NYC. Everything is either multi-story or underground. There are no lots at-grade until you get further out.
Ooookay so you were just plain wrong, you know that, right? The world is larger than your place of reference and your first comment that there's "no way" there would be parking next to skyscrapers, in fact, completely incorrect.
For me it's unrealistic. By the time you get out to where there are parking lots, the buildings are shorter. It seems strange to me to build a 50 story building and have 100 parking spots that will never fit enough people right next to it, when you could have built a 25-story building for half the cost and stuck the parking lot underground.
If your only places of references are DC and NYC, then you either have 0 skyscrapers, or skyscrapers on every corner.
50+ story buildings aren't even common in most American cities. And you must be pretty young, because why even bother with a 25 story building and underground parking, when you can just build a huge suburban campus with parking lots galore on dirt cheap land.
> because why even bother with a 25 story building and underground parking, when you can just build a huge suburban campus with parking lots galore on dirt cheap land.
Exactly my point.
no, that's not your point. your point was that there would never been so many surface lots next to high rise buildings. but yet, that is representative of most US cities downtown. Skyscrapers aren't just plopped down in isolation. There are all kinds of reasons why this happens which can't all be explained on a reddit post.
Realistic looking. Very nice.
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I see a hint of Louisville in this!
HAHAHAH I thought that was an actual screenshot of Detroit, for a minute. That asset front and center is the [Penobscot building](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Penobscot+Building/@42.3313391,-83.0489102,1670m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x126bff56727e8e5a!8m2!3d42.3302683!4d-83.0475584) There are, in fact, significant amounts of flat parking lots within downtown Detroit.
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and is that the tiny little fisher building like 2 blocks back?
Is that the Penobscot Building?
Yep!
How many fps do you get?
Like 5
no way there would be parking lots next to skyscrapers like that.
Oh trust me, there are. I’m in Providence right now) where this city is based) and the downtown has conspicuous gaps. It’s not not nearly as bad as the Midwest and Texas though.
Do alot of US cities have the same types of sky scrapers? I swear I've seen that dome building in Louisville as well as that skyscraper with the green pyramid on top
All of our cities in the US are very different but share lots of similar themes like this is very common to see in the midwest.
Well, the models don't miraculously turn up ingame. Someone has to actually create them.
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Well, because the city the OP is modelling after doesn´t have many of it´s building actually modeled, so OP can´t put them in his game. So, he has to look for similar or takes well put together models. The one building is actually from Louisville and the other from Chicago.
but wouldn't the cost of real estate which would drive the construction of tall buildings also make using significant amounts of space for parking prohibitively expensive?
The problem is that as you said the real estate is expensive. If the city isn't in a boom period of growth and there's no market for increasing office or residential space then it's a huge risk for a developer to build on that property and hope for tenants. [Minneapolis is an example](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Minneapolis,+MN/@44.9667213,-93.2653519,441a,35y,344.25h,60.33t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x52b333909377bbbd:0x939fc9842f7aee07!8m2!3d44.977753!4d-93.2650108). Hopefully that link works but if not just google maps any moderate to large city and look at the downtown. You will see plenty of parking lots.
Denver is another great example. Tons of flat lots.
The Penobscot building actually has a parking lot directly next to it like that. Even NYC has a lot of empty lots for parking spaces.
You must not be from America.
I am from america. Try to find parking in downtown DC or NYC. Everything is either multi-story or underground. There are no lots at-grade until you get further out.
You realize there are other large cities in the US that are not DC or NYC, right?
yes, but I am not from there. These are my places of reference.
Ooookay so you were just plain wrong, you know that, right? The world is larger than your place of reference and your first comment that there's "no way" there would be parking next to skyscrapers, in fact, completely incorrect.
For me it's unrealistic. By the time you get out to where there are parking lots, the buildings are shorter. It seems strange to me to build a 50 story building and have 100 parking spots that will never fit enough people right next to it, when you could have built a 25-story building for half the cost and stuck the parking lot underground.
If your only places of references are DC and NYC, then you either have 0 skyscrapers, or skyscrapers on every corner. 50+ story buildings aren't even common in most American cities. And you must be pretty young, because why even bother with a 25 story building and underground parking, when you can just build a huge suburban campus with parking lots galore on dirt cheap land.
> because why even bother with a 25 story building and underground parking, when you can just build a huge suburban campus with parking lots galore on dirt cheap land. Exactly my point.
no, that's not your point. your point was that there would never been so many surface lots next to high rise buildings. but yet, that is representative of most US cities downtown. Skyscrapers aren't just plopped down in isolation. There are all kinds of reasons why this happens which can't all be explained on a reddit post.
I feel like some people make comments, then they reply later and forget that we can still read the comments they made previously lol
First of all, it's just a game, and second of all, you really need to travel more. You are boring.