I keep an eye on Sacramento and Richmond because I feel like those are close peers in terms of size, economy, culture, and being state capitals. I was trying to check how the “City Geek” score going by the height of the tallest 5 buildings would change after getting a new 4th and 5th tallest from Highline Glenwood and the Omni, and while it would put Raleigh firmly ahead based on this metric (429.8 Ral vs 398 Rich, 394 Sac), I realized that all these numbers from all of these buildings on Wikipedia were probably inaccurate in various ways, and that this whole thing was pointless.
For starters, One Progress is listed as 299 by many sources, or in the 290ish range. Charter Square North is listed as 354 despite being obviously shorter than its nextdoor neighbor. Is one measuring from Fayetteville st and one measuring from Wilmington st? Possibly. Is anything like this going on in these other cities? Almost assuredly.
Building inflation is a big thing. It also happens with waterfalls–if you ever want to go down the rabbit hole of figuring out what the real “tallest” waterfall is in the eastern US, good luck to you. Pretty much all their listed heights are wrong.
This is my rant for the day. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
i was pleased with it. the lounge was rather lively both nights…. i recall julian cope playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UJbz-pp6GQ . the lot seemed 2/3 full for a midweek stay. tie dye pillow on the bed…kinda neat. 17 dollar ‘occupancy tax’ was a bit offputting.
Longleaf is a decent motel. Stayed there a few weeks ago. Room was solid. Not spectacular, but a decent room. The Lounge was a trip. It had a 1960’s James Bond (Connery years) decor and feel. After drinking beers earlier in the evening at a different establishment, we headed back to the Lounge. They had a Raspberry Lemonade THC concoction on tap. First time trying a THC cocktail. That thing was super tasty and packed a wallop. Holy hell. Very cool evening.
In Richmond talk about building height inflation. Costar’s new 26 story office tower was touted as the tallest building in the commonwealth of Virginia but that was only assuming the James Monroe Bldg was destroyed! Also they gave the total height including elevation above sea level making it over 500 feet tall which it is not. Nobody includes the elevation about sea level then adds the building height as this is insane as Denver would have the tallest buildings on the planet!
Here is Richmond bragging about bringing down one building to make the Costar tower the new tallest and notice the reference to feet about sea level.
Simply a weak attempt at marketing the project. They have been doing it since the project inception. But every article always listed the actual building height.
