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Tallboys — one feature tower per CBD

Four feature towers picked across very different CBDs: Nashville (mid-South service economy), Austin (tech secondary city), San Francisco (mature tech finance), Manhattan (apex global-city). Each map shows the feature tower in gold; surrounding grey pins are the next-tallest neighbours in our dataset for that CBD. Maps use the open OpenStreetMap basemap; click the layer toggle (top-right of each map) to switch to a CartoDB Light basemap for a cleaner contour view.

Mid-South · service economy

Nashville — AT&T Building

Height640 ft
Stories33
Year1994
Use
Coordinates36.1625, -86.7777
In dataset+ 9 other towers within CBD
CBD analysisOpen CBD analysis (admin) →
CBD outline Downtown · 0.41 sq mi
Tech secondary city

Austin — The Independent

Height683 ft
Stories58
Year2019
UseResidential
Coordinates30.2677, -97.7515
In dataset+ 9 other towers within CBD
CBD analysisOpen CBD analysis (admin) →
CBD outline Downtown · 1.01 sq mi
Mature tech + finance

San Francisco — Salesforce Tower

Height1,070 ft
Stories61
Year2018
UseOffice
Coordinates37.7897, -122.3960
In dataset+ 9 other towers within CBD
CBD analysisOpen CBD analysis (admin) →
CBD outline pending No polygon in geo.cbd_boundaries — sketch via admin>research>maps>CBD Boundaries
Apex global city

Manhattan — One World Trade Center

Height1,776 ft
Stories104
Year2014
UseOffice
Coordinates40.7127, -74.0134
In dataset+ 9 other towers within CBD
CBD analysisOpen CBD analysis (admin) →
CBD outline pending No polygon in geo.cbd_boundaries — sketch via admin>research>maps>CBD Boundaries