ADVISORY/Census Report Indicates Rapid Growth Among U.S. Southern and Western States.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2000 TOPIC: A recent Census Bureau report estimates that the greatest growth in the United States over the last decade has happened in the South and West. The bureau estimates that North Las Vegas grew to 101,841 in the 1990s, a 112 percent boom. Henderson, Nevada grew even faster from the 65,109 marked at the 1990 census to 166,399 -- a 156 percent rate of growth. By the end of the 1990s, 224 cities exceeded 100,000 people, which represents the accepted threshold for a "large city," the census report said. The five largest cities grew an average of 1.5 percent, but the next five grew 9 percent. Of that second group, all but Detroit lie in the South or West, the report said. All five cities that topped 500,000 during the 1990s also lie in the South and West, including Austin, TX; Charlotte, NC; Nashville, TN; Portland, OR, and Fort Worth, TX the report said. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Prof. Stanley Smith Stanley Smith (born September 29 1949) is a retired NASCAR driver and dirt-track racer from Chelsea, North Carolina. At the 1993 DieHard 500 at Talladega, Smith nearly died from a basilar skull fracture in a massive crash -- the same type of injury that later killed Dale teaches at the University of Florida University of Florida is the third-largest university in the United States, with 50,912 students (as of Fall 2006) and has the eighth-largest budget (nearly $1.9 billion per year). UF is home to 16 colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. and specializes in population estimates and economic demography. 352/392-0171. William H. Fain fain adv. 1. Happily; gladly: "I would fain improve every opportunity to wonder and worship, as a sunflower welcomes the light" Henry David Thoreau. 2. , Jr., FAIA FAIA Florida Association of Insurance Agents FAIA Food Additives and Ingredients Association (Kent, UK) FAIA Fellow, American Institute of Architects (honorary position) , managing partner of Johnson Fain Partners, has spearheaded a number of renowned urban planning urban planning: see city planning. urban planning Programs pursued as a means of improving the urban environment and achieving certain social and economic objectives. projects for the firm, including the design for the government core of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , the master plan for the Los Angeles International Airport “LAX” redirects here. For other uses, see LAX (disambiguation). “KLAX” redirects here. For other uses, see KLAX (disambiguation). Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX, FAA LID: LAX expansion and Sacramento's Capitol East End Project, a 1.5 million-square-foot State of California office project. In 1999 he completed the master land use plan for the 300-acre Mission Bay project in San Francisco that is a model for smart growth through infill development. Fain's plan integrates housing in a wide range of prices, entertainment, retail, commercial and industrial buildings, public facilities such as police and fire stations, and several acres of open space as well as a 43-acre campus for the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). at San Francisco. 213/622-3500; wfain@jfpartners.com; PR: Barbara Casey (bcasey@caseysayre.com). Professor Douglas S. Massey, of the University of Pennsylvania (body, education) University of Pennsylvania - The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. http://upenn.edu/. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA. , Population Studies Center, can provide expert commentary on population and demographics. 215/898-4688; 215/898-5000 (University PR Phone) ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. ExpertSource, a collaboration of Business Wire and The Round Table Group, provides academic and industry experts to the media at no charge. Journalists are encouraged to submit queries to ExpertSource when seeking experts on specific subjects. An online registration form is available at http://www.businesswire.com/expertsource. Business Wire's Media Resource Center provides working journalists many free media services. Please visit the BW Media Resource Center at (www.businesswire.com/media) for more information. |
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