Cities With Highest Prediction to Boom Next by 2030

[walker1962]

[quote=RocketDawg;65537362]Huntsville meets two of the criteria, but there is no high rise/skyscraper growth and probably won't be in the near future. Most of the jobs are out of the downtown area.

Population and economic growth have both been growing rapidly for the past 5 or 6 years, and apartments are being built at an astounding rate. Single family home construction is well above any other city in the state.[/QUOTE

US News & World Report last year gave Huntsville, its top ranking...
https://realestate.usnews.com/real-e...u-s-in-2022-23

https://www.huntsvilleal.gov/huntsvi...0top%20ranking.

[RocketDawg]

Originally Posted by walker1962

I lived in Birmingham for 15 months. The city itself is like 300K. Jefferson is more like 700K.

The city's July 2022 estimate is 196,910. Jefferson County is 665,409.

At one time, the city of Birmingham was around 340,000. It's certainly had its ups and downs in its fairly brief existence (~150 years).

[RocketDawg]

Link for the above numbers in Post 82: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fa...bama/PST045222

[I_am_Father_McKenzie]

Originally Posted by walker1962

One city/metro NOT on the list but warrants watching the next ten years is Sherman/Denison Texas, about 50 - 55miles north of Dallas. The Metropolitan Statistical Area population is about 140,000. The reason to watch is two huge tech projects under construction:

1. In 2020, Texas Instruments broke ground on at least 2 and possibly 4 chip plants - minimum investment of $15 billion and possibly $30 billion. https://www.ti.com/about-ti/company/...g/sherman.html

2. Taiwan based GlobalWafers selected Sherman in 2022 for a silicon wafer factory. At full build-out, the multi-staged, 3.2 million-square-foot silicon wafer factory will be the largest facility of its kind in the USA and among the largest in the world along with secured abundance of land to support any required further growth. https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-...con-wafer-site

The area has amenities such as two large lakes, a casino in Oklahoma with 30 minutes, lower taxes than the large metros of Texas, lots of affordable land and of course its 45 minutes to an hour from Dallas and it big airport.

Interesting that they'd put such large, expensive, sensitive sites right in tornado alley.

[ManSln1966]

I lived in Greenville County, SC. There is so many moving here I had to move to the mountains.