When the owner of Black Coffee and Waffle Bar set out to find the right spot for his third location, he found there was just something about downtown Fargo.
There were the conventional statistics of Fargo Brad Cimaglio found very attractive.
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- “Your population has grown like clockwork since 1960.”
Fargo is among the country’s fastest growing cities, gaining more than 15% in population from 2010 to 2017. The local Metropolitan Council of Governmentsestimates the population of the metro to hit 330,500 by 2045, a 41% increase over the current population. - “Your per capita GDP is fantastic.”
Fargo’s median household income is $60,009. The GDP (gross domestic product) per capita for the Fargo Moorhead metro was $58,068 in 2017. - “You’re one of the only cities in the country that was recession-proof back in 2008.”
Livability named Fargo one of the seven most recession-proof cities in the country, citing Fargo’s “strong and educated workforce,” and its “under-the-radar cool factor the rest of the country is just now starting to discover.”
- “Your population has grown like clockwork since 1960.”
Then there was the way downtown Fargo cinched the deal… Read the full article here.
