Taller Buildings - When and where will we see them?

[313WX]

One thing to remember about tall buildings is that they often come about through ego, not economics. That said, as soon as some rich person decides they need to impress someone, we could have our next Ren Cen.

A couple things:

1. Maybe what you say was the case in a good economy, when things were booming and everyone had money to throw away [[I.E. 1990s). In 2015, everyone's clutching for their purse strings and is a lot more careful about what they spend their money on and where. Building for the sake of building simply going to happen these days. Even in the Great Depression, a lot of propsed skyscrapers in Detroit prior to the 1929 crash were never built.

2. The Ren Cen was proposed in 1971, when the auto industry was rolling in dough, Ford/GM/Chrysler were the biggest companies in the world and prior to the oil embargo and hyperinflation in thd early 1980s. Even so, once Henry Ford Ii realized how big of a loss the Ren Cen would be, he didn't want any part of it and quickly sold it to the city of Detroit.