Tallest Current/Future Buildings

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Thought it could be good to have a single thread about the tallest Raleigh buildings. Using the (recently found) wikipedia list as a guide, the tallest over 200 feet are:

Building name Height (ft) Floors
1 PNC Plaza 538 32
2 Two Hannover Square 431 29
3 150 Fayetteville 400 30
4 The Eastern 377 36
5 FNB Tower 358 22
6 One Progress Plaza 298 21
7 One City Plaza 289 17
8 Red Hat Tower 286 19
9 301 Hillsborough 272 19
10 Bank of America Tower 266 18
11 The Dillon 266 17
12 The Holston at The Weld 265 20
13 Ray at The Weld 265 20
14 Skyhouse Raleigh 264 23
15 Captrust Tower 260 17
16 Wake County Justice Center 258 12
17 East Civic Tower 258 17
18 Advance Auto Parts Tower 257 20
19 400H 244 20
20 Wake County Public Safety Center 241 17
21 Cardinal North Hills - East Tower 241 18
22 Holiday Inn Raleigh Downtown 239 20
23 North Hills Tower 5 238 18
24 333 Fayetteville Street 221 15
25 Sheraton Capital Center 213 17
26 Charter Square 213 11
27 The Maeve 213 20
28 Park Central 212 16
29 West Condominiums 211 15
30 Wake County Office Building 206 15
31 Raleigh Marriott City Center 202 17
32 Quorum Center 200 15

Under Construction:
Building name
Highline Glenwood
Omni Raleigh
The Strand
Union West

I have no idea if the above is accurate. It is up to wikipedia. List of tallest buildings in Raleigh - Wikipedia

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  1. will be The Creamery tower or whatever they’re calling it now until it inevitably is sold and renamed a year after it opens
  2. will be the Omni Hotel
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Heights probably come from Lidar. If so, quite accurate. Looks like AGL (above ground level) numbers, not MSL.

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5 FNB Tower 358 22
6 One Progress Plaza 298 21

Definitely not correct. One Progress is clearly taller. Not 60 feet shorter. Most likely one is measuring from the bottom of an underground deck and one is measuring from the ground.

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One would think the government would have a publically listed heights of every building. Especially the high rises.

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It looks like Emporis was retired in 2022, while not perfect.. SkyscraperPage has some data, though I’m not sure how thorough or up to date it is:

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=112

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Some of the editors of Emporis have created a new site. If anyone is interested you can become and member and contribute:

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Once Omni and Highline are done, Raleigh will technically pass Sacramento and Richmond in the “CityGeek” ranking which uses the top 5 tallest.

Might actually be close to Orlando as well by that metric but obviously would need quite a few more above 300 ft to actually catch up to Orlando in reality.

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Raleigh isn’t too far behind actually. I think I did the math a while back and we’d need 3-4 more to catch up. When I did that I considered downtown high-rises separate so I subtracted NH and the I-Drive area in the respective lists. Orlando has a ton of tall buildings that are 5+ miles outside of downtown and overall not very many in the 200-300 range despite having more 300-400 footers.

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