Boomtown
Looks like I'm not the only one who feels like Waco and surrounding areas are booming. This was an article in today's Waco Tribune Herald. On the second photo showing the second part of the article, it shows a picture of a housing development on Ritchie Road. My son and I used to live in Polo Park, which is a neighborhood across Ritchie Road from this one. Just a few years ago, I would road bike on this road from my Polo Park neighborhood, and this side of the road was nothing but pasture and countryside. I am in daily amazement at how fast our area is becoming more and more congested and populated. I can drive from this area of Ritchie Road to our duplex neighborhood, and it is almost all housing developments now where it used to just be fields of green. I grew up in this area, so I do have a long term point of reference. The best part, I think of all of this has been the revitalization of the downtown area, and more of a cultural a...