Life Is Much Better Downtown
So if the Metropolitan area continues to grow at the same rate for the next 44 years, at 1.5%, the entire CMSA would see a conservative population of 410,000. I personally think if many things continue to take off as they have for the last 5 years, we could reach that population much faster and probably see close to 500,000 by 2050. So with those types of numbers one can assume the downtown area is going to prosper, as long as the community is behind it. So I just figured I'd do some predicative images of what downtown might look like. I'm assuming by 2050, we'll have one tall 40+ storey high-rise building, several 20+ -> 30+ storey buildings and a few residential towers developed along the riverfront. At this point I would assume maybe 25,000 people live in the downtown core. Everyday, an additional 30,000 people commute in to work and out to live in the developing suburbs (West Fargo & Horace & Harwood & Dilworth).
So what might the downtown look like? Here's a brief look at what I think is expectable.
Next time I'll look further at downtown Moorhead...
posted by NanoBison @ 11:06 PM
4 Comments:
As you know, I am a GF blogger. But always interesting to read on what's happening in Fargo. Good luck with the blog!
Thanks for stopping by jgs. All are welcome. I'm really going to cover too much of the "current events" in Fargo, unless it's something big, like the Cityscapes Arena/Plaza project a year back. I'm going to more or less offer my ideas of what needs to be done now and into the future to get some ideas brewing. Thanks again!
Wow that's an amazing skyline. As Mayor Walaker said about the more walkability in town that by the year 2050 Fargo alone would be at 243,000. By that time Moorhead would be at around 188,000, West Fargo would be at around (hopefully not larger then Moorhead) 150,000, and only God knows about Dilworth.????????
Great Blog by the way!
Thanks f-misthebest, I'm going to try to write something up about Moorhead later this afternoon.
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