Year Grand Island hits 50,000
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Year Grand Island hits 50,000
When do you think it will happen?
Not just for metropolitan status and image status..
But for federal funding and grants and much other logistical reasons?
From what I understand is that in a few years, GI could annex enough to hit 50,000 by the year 2011 estimate..
Not just for metropolitan status and image status..
But for federal funding and grants and much other logistical reasons?
From what I understand is that in a few years, GI could annex enough to hit 50,000 by the year 2011 estimate..
Stargazer wrote:I'm more interested in when the tri-cities will hit 100,000.
The tri-cities:
Grand Island 46k
Kearney 30k
Hastings 25k
JUST the three cities pushes it over 100k..
The Grand Island micropolitan area encompasses 3 counties and its micropolitan population has just passed 70,000
» Grand Island Micropolitan Statistical Area (Hall, Howard, and Merrick Counties)
http://www.dol.state.ne.us/nwd/center.c ... PCAT=4C5RA
2008 estimate is - 72,587
» Kearney Micropolitan Statistical Area (Buffalo and Kearney Counties)
2007 estimate is - 51,578
» Hastings Micropolitan Statistical Area (Adams and Clay Counties)
2007 estimate is - 39,320
PER http://www.dol.state.ne.us/nwd/center.c ... PCAT=4C5RA
Total estimate 163485
Last edited by Erik on Wed Oct 22, 2008 12:40 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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GI-Kearney-Hastings is probably a distant future...
But GI-Hastings is a very likely scenario is the very near future..
Hastings is just a couple of miles from the south end of Hall country, which is the county where GI is in..
Kearney, however is like 30 miles from the west side of Hall county and that would take a few decades for any consideration..
72,548 Â Grand Island Micro
39,320 Â Hastings Micro
111,868 for a Grand Island/Hastings combination....
But GI-Hastings is a very likely scenario is the very near future..
Hastings is just a couple of miles from the south end of Hall country, which is the county where GI is in..
Kearney, however is like 30 miles from the west side of Hall county and that would take a few decades for any consideration..
72,548 Â Grand Island Micro
39,320 Â Hastings Micro
111,868 for a Grand Island/Hastings combination....
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The year GI actually hits 50,000? No guesses from me. The last census estimate says just shy of 45,000, while various estimates from city/civic/business people range from 44,000 to 47,000. What we can say is that job growth is on the upswing again and more businesses and construction are in the works in the near future. What bad economy??? Â 8)
Annexation probably wouldn't fly when you consider the costs of annexation right now. The last attempt to annex the eastern subdivisions was met with a lot of hostility and shelved. A wild guess would place maybe around a thousand people east of town with another few hundred west and south. It would be a stretch to say 2,000 folks live within a realistically annexible distance from city limits. The east lakes subdivisions would need city water and sewer and that'd be waaaaaay costly for the little gain in property taxes and I don't think it would be enough to make it a good investment for the extra federal funding and grants.
We'd need to really get on the stick to make it by the 2010 census... but who knows?
Annexation probably wouldn't fly when you consider the costs of annexation right now. The last attempt to annex the eastern subdivisions was met with a lot of hostility and shelved. A wild guess would place maybe around a thousand people east of town with another few hundred west and south. It would be a stretch to say 2,000 folks live within a realistically annexible distance from city limits. The east lakes subdivisions would need city water and sewer and that'd be waaaaaay costly for the little gain in property taxes and I don't think it would be enough to make it a good investment for the extra federal funding and grants.
We'd need to really get on the stick to make it by the 2010 census... but who knows?
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Eh?Big E wrote:If NU keeps scheduling South Dakota State caliber teams, Memorial Stadium might beat Bellevue to 50K.DTO Luv wrote:Bellevue is actually close to annexing it's way over 50,000. Watch out memorial stadium.
Memorial Stadium holds 80K and they're on a sellout streak that started in the '60s.
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