{"id":57,"date":"2006-03-01T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2006-03-01T07:27:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T14:27:00","slug":"phoenix-and-the-wow-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/57\/phoenix-and-the-wow-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix and the wow factor&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Phoenix just celebrated the demi-sesqui-centennial of its incorporation in 1881 (the town was founded by Col. Jack Swilling in 1867). The <i>Republic<\/i> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/arizonarepublic\/local\/articles\/0301edphoenix0301timeline.html\">timetable of key events<\/a> in today&#8217;s paper. I thought I&#8217;d highlight two, for the wow factor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&bul; 1950: Phoenix covered an area of 17.1 square miles, had a population of 106,000 residents and was the 99th-largest American city.<\/p>\n<p>&bul; 2006: Phoenix spans across more than 514 square miles, has a population of more than 1.4 million residents and is the sixth-largest city in the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a word: Wow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Phoenix just celebrated the demi-sesqui-centennial of its incorporation in 1881 (the town was founded by Col. Jack Swilling in 1867). The Republic has a timetable of key events in today&#8217;s paper. I thought I&#8217;d highlight two, for the wow factor: &bul; 1950: Phoenix covered an area of 17.1 square miles, had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-general","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/43\/tempe-puts-the-fork-in-the-thunderbird\/","url_meta":{"origin":57,"position":0},"title":"Tempe puts the fork in the Thunderbird&#8230;","author":"Odysseus","date":"January 15, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"As anyone who has been to Las Vegas knows, tourism doesn't make a city. But tourists can make an urban space feel like a city. Who is winning that contest in the Valley? Tempe, as always:But as cities compete for overnight stays, the numbers could work in Tempe's favor: &bul;\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":46,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/46\/corporate-welfare-in-glendale\/","url_meta":{"origin":57,"position":1},"title":"Corporate welfare in Glendale","author":"Odysseus","date":"January 25, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Republic:The AAA travel and financial services club will locate up to 1,100 new jobs over the next three years in Glendale as it creates a regional customer service and information technology center in the West Valley. 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