This is why the population growth, as projected by the Brookings Institute and Fannie Mae, of these cores is so high. Where things are moving and happening. You can see it happening. The Centre City Development Corp. has identified 92 projects occurring in San Diego's core in the next few years. I know of many financial institutions convinced that community urban cores are coming alive, that their timing is now.
Nothing travels faster than an idea whose time has come.
We are at last smart, as we search to identify who will be the leaders and whom we will follow. CCDC and the San Diego Association of Governments project growth in Downtown residents from today's 20,000 people to 50,000 in the first quarter of the new century. CCDC and Sandag also estimate core workers will grow from 88,000 to 150,000 in that same time period. I believe those estimates to be conservative. I don't think so.