Small cities in America’s Mountain West are booming
Rocky Mountain metros are growing both despite and because of the pandemic
IN 1871 WILLIAM JACKSON PALMER, a civil-war general and railway magnate, looked up at Pikes Peak in central Colorado and decided “he wanted to build a city that matched the magnificent scenery”. Or so says John Suthers, the mayor of Colorado Springs, the town Palmer would eventually found at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Now, 150 years later, Mr Suthers says the residents of Colorado Springs are still trying to build that shining city on a hill. Lately, though, the building has sped up.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Growing pains”
United States April 10th 2021
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