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Atlanta is still growing by around 80k-90k people per year based on the 2010-2012 estimates. This means once the economy here is back to pre-recession levels, we might still get to 1 million people added by the end of the decade...but I estimate around 750k-800k people adde by 2020 which means the MSA will be around 6.1M.
The City of Seattle's Growth will continue at a high pace! Downtown will denser and the Skyline will be more expansive. Hopefully SoDo can take steps by then for future gentrification and rezoning. The Eastside will be an economic power and Bellevue will continue you growth significantly. The South Sound will be hit with a population surge due to people having to relocate out of Seattle to somewhere cheaper. Hopefully Light Rail will be expansive enough to at least Tacoma. Also Gentrification or redevelopment should take place throughout the Tacoma city center. I hope Infrastructure changes will have happened or proposed by then. Maybe another attempt to build a tunnel under the Puget sound? (I doubt it but could be useful) The population should be over 5.1 million in the CSA by then.
The City of Seattle's Growth will continue at a high pace! Downtown will denser and the Skyline will be more expansive. Hopefully SoDo can take steps by then for future gentrification and rezoning. The Eastside will be an economic power and Bellevue will continue you growth significantly. The South Sound will be hit with a population surge due to people having to relocate out of Seattle to somewhere cheaper. Hopefully Light Rail will be expansive enough to at least Tacoma. Also Gentrification or redevelopment should take place throughout the Tacoma city center. I hope Infrastructure changes will have happened or proposed by then. Maybe another attempt to build a tunnel under the Puget sound? (I doubt it but could be useful) The population should be over 5.1 million in the CSA by then.
For all the good change that will happen for Seattle, I fear what will happen with our growing homeless population...
Well Washington, D.C. has been untouched by the world recession thanks to US government spending. I think the city itself could reach around 800,000 people. I think DC construction will continue to boom and DC will be mostly built out within the next 10-20 years. I think DC will become more of a first class world city. I think the tech industry will continue to be huge in the DC area and The DC metro area will continue to be the wealthiest in the nation.
Between now and 2020, Pittsburgh's metropolitan population will be flat. Allegheny County's population will increase, as will the city of Pittsburgh's, but the population of Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Washington and Westmoreland Counties combined will continue to decrease. An increase in black, Asian and Hispanic residents will be offset by a continued decrease in white residents, and an increase in the working-age population will be offset by a slight decrease in children and a significant decrease in elderly.
The City of Seattle's Growth will continue at a high pace! Downtown will denser and the Skyline will be more expansive. Hopefully SoDo can take steps by then for future gentrification and rezoning. The Eastside will be an economic power and Bellevue will continue you growth significantly. The South Sound will be hit with a population surge due to people having to relocate out of Seattle to somewhere cheaper. Hopefully Light Rail will be expansive enough to at least Tacoma. Also Gentrification or redevelopment should take place throughout the Tacoma city center. I hope Infrastructure changes will have happened or proposed by then. Maybe another attempt to build a tunnel under the Puget sound? (I doubt it but could be useful) The population should be over 5.1 million in the CSA by then.
I think that Seattle in 10 years will be completely taken over by Amazon.com people. In 10 years the city of Seattle will probably change it's name to Amazon. So instead of Seattle, Washington it will be Amazon, Washington. It will no longer be the Seattle Seahawks. It will be the Amazon Seahawks. It won't be CenturyLink Field anymore. It will be Amazon Stadium. Lol.
It looks like Boeing will take over a lot of the Charleston area in the next few years. Areas like Summerville are already growing very fast and with more jobs will grow faster.
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.
The Raleigh/Durham CSA has been redrawn to include a few more micropolitan areas and is already sitting at 2 million; I'll revise my projections accordingly. While I stand by the numbers for the Raleigh/Cary MSA and specific cities, I think that the Raleigh/Durham CSA will be around 2.4 million in 2020.
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