This came up in the Strawberry Fields C2S thread, but like I said there, I have always understood it as a hard rule of thumb that a city can support 1 to 5% of its metro population in the center city. I was asked in that thread to produce some stats on our peer cities, so this thread should serve as that. I'd encourage anyone who comes across such a stat or an article etc to share it in this thread.
Note 1: This thread is only useful if people refrain from city vs city and just focus on the facts that we're all interested in learning.
Note 2: The definition of a "downtown" is the crux of this as ALL cities are counting infill areas outside the CBD code, but it's a question of how much and how many areas. Wish I could add a land mass area to these stats...
Note 3: All numbers represent residents, unless otherwise states (i.e., "__ units")
Here's a few cities to start us off:
OKC - 7,500
http://www.okcchamber.com/clientuplo...n_brochure.pdf
Kansas City - 24,000 now, 29,000 planned (units underway), and 33,000 5-year target
http://www.kansascity.com/news/busin...e84819842.html
Minneapolis - 40,000 currently, 70,000 target 2025
http://www.downtownmpls.com/page/show/423275-2025-plan
Tulsa - 6,000
http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/r...461c993a5.html
Des Moines - 10,000 (I don't trust this though)
http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...ot-cool-213552
Austin - 12,000
http://www.downtownaustin.com/live/facts-figures
Fort Worth - 2,100 rental units, 960 condo units (3,000 x 1.5 = 4,500?)
http://www.dfwi.org/_files/docs/marc...-dashboard.pdf
Dallas - I don't think is a fair apples-to-apples comparison
Houston - 3,600 in the 45/10/69 loop, 55,000 in "Greater Downtown" (Midtown + Near East? If they're counting Montrose and Heights I call bogus)
https://www.downtownhouston.org/resource/residential/
Cleveland - 14,000 now, 20,000 planned (units underway), 25,000 target
http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral...is_chan.html#0
Cincinnati - 16,000 (including OTR and Mt. Auburn)
http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnat...cinnati-s.html
Columbus - 7,000 (not including the Short North and German Village which each have 20,000)
http://www.columbusunderground.com/r...ntown-columbus
Pittsburgh - 12,500, 2,300 more units planned
http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/6...-units-percent
Philadelphia - 180,000 (nation's 2nd most populous CBD after Midtown Manhattan), developers build approx 2,000 units annually
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20...nhattan_s.html
Denver - 73,000, 13,000 new units since 2011 (counting Capitol Hill and Highland??)
http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/bl...00-12-933.html
Memphis - 24,000 (counting Mud Island?), 7,000 in the CBD
http://www.downtownmemphiscommission...-demographics/
Nashville - 10,000
http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville...s-booming.html
Charlotte - 15,000, 20,000 planned
http://www.charlottecentercity.org/live/neighborhoods/
Milwaukee - 21,000 (including historic wards?)
https://www.milwaukeedowntown.com/im...et_Profile.pdf
Detroit - 35,000 (including Midtown and Corktown)
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/in..._downtown.html
Richmond - 10,000
http://cppweb.vcu.edu/urban/Richmond...%20Profile.pdf
Raleigh - 7,000
http://dtraleigh.com/2016/06/2016-do...ation-numbers/
Indianapolis - 27,000 (they don't have any other gentrified neighborhoods besides Broad Ripple)
https://indyimby.wordpress.com/2015/...2010-and-2010/
St. Louis - 14,000
http://fox2now.com/2013/05/28/downto...ation-growing/
Great article with an overview of Midwest downtowns: http://www.globest.com/sites/globest...g-the-midwest/
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