[ppassafi]

This thread will list development in the Louisville/S Indiana Metro area, which is currently seeing a huge boom although it is rarely mentioned on these threads. The one person who mentions Louisville, Jeff-In-Dayton, seems to have his view of the city stuck in its stagnant days of the 1970's when he lived there briefly. Also, I think it is fair to say that Louisville is simply in a class above Dayton, who he often mentions it with. Dayton is a great city with similarities, but it is much smalller with almost 400,000 less residents in its metro. As you can see, Louisville is more similar to places like Memphis and Jacksonville.

2004 MSA estimates (U.S. Census)

30 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 1741431
31 Columbus, OH 1693906
32 Las Vegas-Paradise, NV 1650671
33 Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC 1644250
34 Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA 1628808
35 Indianapolis, IN 1621613
36 Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI 1515738
37 Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC 1474734
38 Austin-Round Rock, TX 1412271
39 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro, TN 1395879
40 New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA 1319589
41 Memphis, TN-MS-AR 1250293
42 Jacksonville, FL 1225381
43 Louisville, KY-IN 1200847
44 Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT 1184564
45 Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Tonawanda, NY 1154378
46 Richmond, VA 1154317
47 Oklahoma City, OK 1144327
48 Birmingham-Hoover, AL 1082193
49 Rochester, NY 1041499
50 Salt Lake City, UT 1018826
51 Raleigh-Cary, NC 914680
52 Tucson, AZ 907059
53 Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT 903291
54 Honolulu, HI 899593
55 Tulsa, OK 881815
56 Fresno, CA 866772
57 New Haven-Milford, CT 845694
58 Dayton, OH 845646
59 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY 845269
60 Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA 803801