USA TODAY: [Baltimore’s] Harbor East symbolizes a population shift taking place across the nation, reflected in new data released today by the Census Bureau. It finds that population growth has been shifting to the core counties of the USA’s 381 metro areas, especially since the economic recovery began gaining steam in 2010. Basically, the USA’s urban core is getting denser, while far-flung suburbs watch their growth dwindle.
Driven by young professionals and retiring Baby Boomers who like living in cities, the trend is “180 degrees” from the last decade’s rush to the exurbs, says William Frey, a demographer at Washington’s Brookings Institution, a research and policy group…
The trend also is driven by increasing numbers of young people delaying or foregoing marriage and childbirth, which often prompt moves to the suburbs… (more)
EDITOR: So does Rick Gray’s city administration foster the development of condominium and rental housing for downtown? Instead of seeking to raze the moribund Brunswick Hotel and Annex and the decade vacant Bulova Building, they want to pour public money into retaining them rather than redeveloping Lancaster Square East as a residential condominiums for which it is ideally suited.
