Will Chicago Always be Part Of The "Big Three"......

Hong Kong ( For Sure! ) New York ( Bank On It! ) Here is the part where you will think I'm crazy.......... With London going bezerk in Canary Wharf, in time for the 2012 Olympics......... We all know the story with Dubai.........Singapore is already top four as it is and closing.......... Then there's ShangHai that is vying for world attention and improves its skyline annually........... So how set in stone is it that Chicago will forever hold it's position? It has always fascinated me how Chicago determines what projects are necessity and which ones are taboo. I believe that we would have already been number two if not number one had Wolf Point, 7 South Dearborn, Miglin Beitler and a laundry list of other "wish-list" towers had reached their 'groundbreakings', unfortunately, these testemants of prosperity met the same fate that I am almost postive will become of the Fordham Spire. I say it is time to reach for the skies like never before, If I had been Mayor you better believe that 7SD would be casting it's shadow all over the loop. I am sick of the 40-story fortress that has become Chicago. It's time to offer tax breaks and whatever else it takes to these developers who have lacing the loop with 1000fters on their agendas. While we plop 40- story condos on parking lots,( That get swallowed in the grand skeem of things anyway ) other cities with the go-getters are building outward and upward at a dizzying pace. The Sears Tower has dominated for thirty years now and has unequivocally served it's pupose, but it seems that these sacred cows in office are't willing to top it. I love the Sears and it is honestly my favorite building in the world but I realize that it is time for it to bow down to a new king of the city. I believe that the love for it has inadvertently ( or ) advertently been the ultimate demise of so many projects in the city it's shameful, if we do not surpass the Sears Tower than we are telling the world that we have given up. The future of Chicago is not admiring 1729ft. it's building beyond it. I know it's an exciting time with alot on our plate but afterall proposals are just that, Proposals! Alot of people are gleeming because we got the Trump, honestly I have veiwed it as a tragedy since the day he announced that they scaled back the design from 150 stories to avoid terrorism ( I guess planes can't hit a 92 story building ) after that I knew the road to super towers would be awfully bleak for Chicago. Waterview is a nice addition but hardly a show-stopper and it seems most other projects ( Not All ) are of the "Ho-Hum" "La Di Da" variety. In conclusion, short of guaranteeing, I will begrudgingly say, that I am almost certain that we will not see a 2000ft. or even 1500ft. project beyond "approved" within the next decade to further immerse ourselves within the "Big Three.">