Yesterday on this blog I featured an article in Chicago Magazine about a new 101 story skyscraper that was recently completed in that city. Chicago is where the skyscraper was born, back in 1885, and the skyline is truly impressive, especially with Grant Park featured prominently in the foreground. And Denver's skyline? Judge for yourself from the photograph above, which I took from my car window last week. It could be any downtown, anywhere. Granted, there are a lot more tall buildings now than when I moved here from Chicago back in 1981, but impressive? No way. For one thing, there is no lake providing dramatic views, and the buildings are really quite ordinary. Denver's real strength is in it's Victorian neighborhoods, many of which have not changed much since the late 1800s. Granted, many if not most of the Victorian era homes in these neighborhoods have been snapped up by the millions of Californians who have moved here in recent years, inflating Denver's housing costs in the bargain, but they do make for a nice, pleasant city. However, there is still no equivalent of a Lake Michigan bordering this city, which I consider to be a major drawback. I'm just sayin'...
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