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Old 08-31-2009, 11:03 AM
 
Location: South Carolina
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You are right.. the thing that really hampers smaller metros like Augusta, Columbus and macon is not having a large international airport. Most big corporations need to have easy access to a large hub airport.
I don't buy the "oh well, if it's not a big city, it's not going to attract anything anyway" line. Greenville, SC was like Augusta before Greenville took a marked step forward. It's in large part that Greenville is at a crossroads between Atlanta, Charlotte, Columbia, and Asheville-Knoxville. Investment in interstates/freeways through Augusta would go VERY far in promoting Augusta growth, and should have happened a long time ago.
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Old 08-31-2009, 02:23 PM
 
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It's just a much harder sell to attract corporate HQs of large companies when there is not a large international hub airport nearby. Greenville has sone a better job than Augusta in marketing itself.. but it still struggles to be a base for corporate HQs. It is about an hour closer to a large hub airport though than Augusta.
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Old 09-03-2009, 07:19 AM
 
Location: South Carolina
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It doesn't have to be all corporate HQs of big companies. I3 would have gone a long way to improving Augusta's appeal as a distribution center for various companies, if it had already been built. Charelston is far from everything, and it has a good deal of business operating there. Everybody doesn't work for the tourist industry there. There is growth to be had in the CSRA if it is invested in.
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Old 09-04-2009, 03:42 PM
 
Location: Augusta/Evans, GA
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It doesn't have to be all corporate HQs of big companies. I3 would have gone a long way to improving Augusta's appeal as a distribution center for various companies, if it had already been built. Charelston is far from everything, and it has a good deal of business operating there. Everybody doesn't work for the tourist industry there. There is growth to be had in the CSRA if it is invested in.
Good points!
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Old 03-07-2010, 08:33 AM
 
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Remembered this thread from a while back, I did a few quick calculations to answer the original question of when the metro population would reach 600,000.

OK, so the 2000 population was 499,684.
The 2008 estimate was 534,218.
That means that over an 8 year period, the metro population increased by 6.91%.

So, if the population sees a steady growth rate of 7% (I rounded up to make it easier) every 8 years, then the metro population should reach 600,000 by 2024, so we'll see it in roughly 14 years.

The 2008 population: 534,218
+7% increase over 8 years: 37,395
The 2016 population: 571,613
+7% increase over 8 years: 40,012
The 2024 population: 611,625

Now keep in mind, these numbers were calculated using a constant growth rate (the rate at which the metro grew from 2000 to 2008), these rates fluctuate, therefore, if the growth rate increases in the near future (which could be likely given current metro economic conditions, the 7% rate was rather low for the 2000-2008 period, other metros were seeing rates closer to 10%), then the population will of course increase faster, however, if for some reason the rate drops, then it will take longer to reach 600,000.

Once the official census data comes out this year, then we'll see the 2000-2010 growth rates, and I'll be able to revise my estimates if needed.

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Old 03-07-2010, 10:55 PM
 
Location: metro ATL
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And of course, you will have to take into account any potential additions of other surrounding counties to the metro area.
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Old 03-08-2010, 08:29 AM
 
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Yeah, well, I really saw no reason why the Census Bureau would all of a sudden decide to do that. The non-MSA counties in the CSRA haven't really been doing anything the past decade, and the only ones out of the 13 that have actually stayed constant and not lost population are Jenkins, Glascock, and McCormick counties. None of them are suddenly growing and becoming a suburban county of Augusta, so I didn't take them into account because I really saw no reason to lol.

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Old 03-08-2010, 08:55 AM
 
Location: South Augusta
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Is crawfordville taleferro county in the Augusta msa?
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Old 03-08-2010, 09:02 AM
 
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Nope, the MSA is Burke, McDuffie, Columbia, Richmond, Aiken, and Edgefield counties.
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Old 03-08-2010, 01:46 PM
 
Location: Augusta, GA ''The fastest rising city in the southeast''
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The 2000-2010 vs 2010-2020 decades. The 2000-2010 won't be able to compare at all in terms of growth. 2005-2010 had/have alot more construction going on. The years 2007 to 2008 for example. Augusta metro gained 6,000 people. Using the same 8 years of growth. That would be almost 50,000 people in 8 years. There is residential being built all over the metro in 2010. NSA, SRS, Plant Vogtle, ADP, T-Mobile, Ft. Gordon, Procter & Gamble, Medical District, South Georgia Tissue, etc jobs! jobs! jobs!= transplants! transplants! transplants!


Richmond County enrollment rises since end of Christmas break | The Augusta Chronicle
Three-fourths of the way through this school year, Richmond County schools' enrollment remains up by more than 1,400 students from when classes started in August.
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