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Originally Posted by DCReid
What's the point here? I am thinking about Columbus, OH and how even though the metro has grown and done well, there are still pockets of abandonment and urban decay caused by suburban and exurban flight and manufacturing decline. I was told that Delco once employed thousand in Columbus, and the area where the middle class that worked there is now run down. Columbus reminded me of a southern city, with a mostly stagnant downtown and some pockets of gentrification, but the real growth in the exurbs. I am not as familiar with Indy but I think downtown Indy was helped by attracting a lot of sports entertainment and it has helped its reputation.
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Downtown Columbus currently has 40 projects u/c (I'm not saying it's a fully vibrant downtown but it certainly isn't stagnant) and whole swaths of the city have been gentrified. Previous Appalachian and black communities have seen full-on gentrification the last 15 years so much that suburban communities have now become "new homes" for affordable housing (Obetz, Minerva Park, Heath, Hebron, Whitehall, etc). Delco was HQ'd and had 11 factories in Dayton, not Columbus. Columbus was never a factory town, thus it never had the rustbelt repuation as the rest of the state. The only factory that I can think of was the old GM plant on the westside that is now a casino. Yes, exurban Columbus is growing but also the city of Columbus is growing (it grew by 100,000 the last Census without annexation or much empty land), and inner-ring suburbs are growing.
All of Columbus is growing.
As far as "southern city," I can't wrap my brain around that one. We have pockets of Appalachia on the south and westsides but they look like this:
https://images1.loopnet.com/i2/9do7LD-3G...ve-Columbus-OH-Primary-Photo-1-Large.jpg
...which I don't typically view as "southern vernacular." And with all the Northeast US and Cleveland transplants living here, you certainly don't hear it.
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Originally Posted by Docere
How did "old Columbus" fare in terms of population?
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Here are the numbers for the old city limits (
40 square miles) courtesy of
https://allcolumbusdata.com/:
1950: 375,710
1960: 389,222 +13,512
1970: 348,808 -40,414
1980: 287,089 -61,719
1990: 268,265 -18,824
2000: 246,713 -21,552
2010: 234,582 -12,131
2020: 256,939 +22,357
That's a population density of 6,423 per square mile for the old city of Columbus in 2020.
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