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Areas around the country have changed a lot in the last few years. My area (Charleston), has added 115K in the last decade. Other metro areas have added more or less. Now there are over 665,000 in the area.
I wanted to talk about what you think your metro area will be in 10 years.
Charleston in ten years will be much different. There will be about 780-785,000 if the area keeps up. If it does, the area will grow in prominence. Boeing, if it brings more jobs with its Dreamliner plant, will grow that prediction. Boeing will bring thousands of people into the area. They will provide money for the area, and big support.
Sports might grow in the area because of the growth. The minor league baseball team, the Riverdogs, may change divisions, going from Low-A to High-A or AA because of their attendance. We might also gain other teams in other leagues, like tennis because of the stadium and golf because of the PGA next year.
Several new high schools will be built probably in the area, and infrastructure will grow. The new I-526 will probably be built by then.
The next 10 years will be very interesting here. How will it be in your area?
LA will be more or less the same with the city adding more density and more rail. Overall I'd expect the metro to add 400,000 or so which is a lot but not enough to change things too much.
Areas around the country have changed a lot in the last few years. My area (Charleston), has added 115K in the last decade. Other metro areas have added more or less. Now there are over 665,000 in the area.
I wanted to talk about what you think your metro area will be in 10 years.
Charleston in ten years will be much different. There will be about 780-785,000 if the area keeps up. If it does, the area will grow in prominence. Boeing, if it brings more jobs with its Dreamliner plant, will grow that prediction. Boeing will bring thousands of people into the area. They will provide money for the area, and big support.
Sports might grow in the area because of the growth. The minor league baseball team, the Riverdogs, may change divisions, going from Low-A to High-A or AA because of their attendance. We might also gain other teams in other leagues, like tennis because of the stadium and golf because of the PGA next year.
Several new high schools will be built probably in the area, and infrastructure will grow. The new I-526 will probably be built by then.
The next 10 years will be very interesting here. How will it be in your area?
That's awesome for Charleston. SC on a whole has been heading in awesome directions these past few decades.
Hopefully nearing 1,000,000 MSA or CSA, The Green Light Plan will have completed many more traffic projects, and we might be closer or further away from that streetcar and rail to New Orleans.
I expect Austin to hopefully have a metro of over 2 million. A city limit population of about 900,000. Hopefully they improve that joke of a rail system we have here and actually make it viable for everyday people. Other than that, I don't see TOO much changing.
Austin will change some. But not like some cities in SC. Horry County (Myrtle Beach) went from under 200,000 in the 2000 census to almost 270,000 in 2010. Even if it adds only 50-60,000 in the next decade, it still will have more population than most counties in the state.
The airport is already the 2nd biggest in the state, and if Myrtle adds more industries and doesn't rely on the tourism industry, you could see a resurgence.
My guess is that the Raleigh/Cary MSA will probably grow from 1.13 million to about 1.45-1.5 million. Using the city's current planning jurisdiction, Raleigh proper (currently ~410K) will probably be ~525,000 while Cary (currently ~140K) might reach 180K. Wake County will probably be nearing 1.2 million while the Raleigh/Durham/Cary CSA will probably be about 2.1 million.
Austin will change some. But not like some cities in SC. Horry County (Myrtle Beach) went from under 200,000 in the 2000 census to almost 270,000 in 2010. Even if it adds only 50-60,000 in the next decade, it still will have more population than most counties in the state.
The airport is already the 2nd biggest in the state, and if Myrtle adds more industries and doesn't rely on the tourism industry, you could see a resurgence.
To put this in perspective in the Carolinas, Wake County (NC) grew by more than the current total populatoin of Horry County in just the last decade.
In ten years, I would probably be back in San Francisco, but anyways, here is my prediction for Sacramento.
Metro Population would have increased, albeit at a slower rate than for the previous decade. It would likely be roughly about 2.6 million.
The urban core would have continued to be revitalized and redeveloped. Although the sluggish economy would take its toll and slow the progress. However, the urban core would have improved as it has tremendously the past ten years.
More sprawl is likely as well in the latter half of this decade, though not right now because of the poor housing market.
Housing prices would have stabilized and may be rising again.
The economy would have begun its recovery.
Sacramento's green economy would have grown and it may emerge as a major leader in the cleantech industry.
I think Sacramento's future is good, it's growth will continue and it's urban core will become a more interesting place.
Most people in Omaha have the big-little-city dream. We are around 825,000 now and we are all hoping to break a million sometime soon. Also hope we have more than two skyscrapers! We have one very nice (634 feet) and another somewhat tall...then a small crowd of low-rises.
We have some terrible sprawl to the west (downtown is on the extreme eastern edge of the city) so 8 miles east of downtown and you're in a cornfield...while 30 miles west of downtown and you're still in cookie-cutter houses. Omaha is working on making our downtown and midtown more dense, which will bring much more vibrancy to our city. They have recently built a massive 'urban living' apartment complex with restaurants, stores, cafe's, etc in our midtown, along with other already standing places such as this, and many more proposed (including a 500ft condo tower downtown.)
Also, like all other cities, let's hope more jobs come to America...soon.
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