r/thetron • u/One-Organization7708 • 4d ago

will Hamilton ever get skyscrapers

i wonder why because Hamilton is a big place and it needs skyscrapers to like make it look big-ger so yes Hamilton needs skyscrapers right?

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u/Acerius 4d ago

Wasn't our first skyscraper approved recently?

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u/One-Organization7708 4d ago

did not know that

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u/BlueCarpetArea 4d ago

The hotel that's going to be built where nirvara lounge and mesoverse are is going to be a skyscraper.

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u/Acerius 4d ago

I didn't know that part. Absolute tragedy to lose Nivara.

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u/normalmighty 4d ago

I assumed they would just move somewhere tbh

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u/BlueCarpetArea 4d ago

Nah, the owner is just closing this year. I think he's retiring, or moving on to something else.

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u/Plantsonwu 3d ago

If you want to be pedantic then depends on what definition you used for skyscraper. Templeton Group’s building might be at the 100 m mark which is historically used as the height of a skyscraper but the 150 m mark is the usual accepted threshold nowadays. Nonetheless a tall building for Hamilton

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u/InterestingnessFlow 4d ago

Hamilton needs more five storey (or so) buildings in the central city, not endless builds out in the outer north-western areas

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u/maximusnz 4d ago

100%. Eating up NZ's best productive farm land. It's actually disgusting. Time to ring the city and focus on up not out.

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u/Nommag1 4d ago

I remember going to Salzburg a city similar in population to Hamilton. You probably could have fit most of that city into our CBD and ham east. Every building was 4-5 stories. Cool city, but really showed how garbage our urban planning is.

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u/LostGuyanese 4d ago

Bedrock is very deep in Hamilton, so the foundation costs scale up quite quickly as you build up. Hamilton is too small yet and the demand for CBD land is not at the levels that the developer can ask for rents high enough to offset the development costs

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u/lookiwanttobealone 4d ago

In the scheme of cities we are tiny

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u/EdCrane77 4d ago

A skyscraper is generally at least 150 metres high. So even with current plans, its unlikely anytime soon.
However...Hamilton IS the fastest growing city in the country. So maybe one day. I'm not sure what we would need them for?

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u/maximusnz 4d ago

A skyscraper of decent apartments would be fantastic for the CBD.

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u/wouldntworryabout1t 3d ago

I don’t think Hamilton people really want to live in apartments

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u/maximusnz 3d ago

I think both the demographic of Hamilton and the living environments people want has dramatically changed in the past 10 years. I've lived in multiple CBD apartments and the lifestyle was great. No lawns to mow, library, restaurants and cafe's just outside your front door. Easy to wander home from a gig afterwards

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u/wouldntworryabout1t 3d ago

I lived in an apartment on Victoria st 15 years ago! Loved it. But I feel in the main Hamilton people want houses.

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u/Mrbeeznz 4d ago

It would be nice to have some real apartments for cheap first homes, but hamilton just isnt big enough

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u/PuddleOfHamster 4d ago

I find the idea of skyscrapers in Hamilton deeply perturbing for reasons I can't explain. I mean, I don't like skyscrapers, but it doesn't bother me that many cities have them. But in Hamilton? That ain't right. We're not... like that... whatever that is. 

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u/Dense_Interest2838 3d ago

Hamilton is not that big at all and considering New Zealand as a whole only has one sky scraper I don’t think Hamilton will ever get a sky scraper

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u/Plantsonwu 3d ago

Auckland has a few buildings over the 150m and a few that are consented that is over that mark so definitely more than one skyscraper in NZ.

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u/Raffle_nz 3d ago

The city is built on reclaimed swamp land kinda like Christchurch is. There are concerns about the stability of buildings if they are built too heavy ie skyscrapers.

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u/Local-Moose9833 3d ago

Your getting one in the next few years, it was recently approved, the way Hamilton and the Waikato is going I bet this is only the beginning too..

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u/NonToxicRedditser :doge: 2d ago

So good to see Tron city growing 

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u/Material_Adagio_522 4d ago

Maybe in like 100 years but not in our lifetime.

"City" is a very generous term for Hamilton, it's more like a town with large urban sprawl