More evidence Baldwin’s growth has stopped — for now
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The halt to growth in Baldwin Township that Curtis Gilbert wrote about here in February is a Twin Cities-wide phenomenon, the Star Tribune reports today in a story by David Peterson and Katie Humphrey.
The new evidence comes in the latest U.S. Census Bureau population estimates for counties for 2009. Sherburne County, which was adding some 3,000 people every year in the first half of the decade, grew by less than 600 in the year ending last July.
The big question Baldwin residents have been asking remains. Is this halt permanent or merely a pause? Has something fundamental happened to demographics, gas prices and house prices or are we seeing only a temporary change that will reverse itself when the economy improves? You can find experts on both sides of the question in the STrib story.
And in either case, how should people plan for the future?
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