When the Gadberry Group, a technology consulting firm that identifies growing markets for its clients, compiled its 2007 list of "boomtowns," even its executives were puzzled by the results: Brighton, Colo.; Frisco, Texas; Goodyear, Ariz.; Plainfield, Ill.; North Port, Fla.; Lawrenceville, Ga.; and Wentzville, Mo.*Could you call one of these boomtowns your future home?
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*Wentzville, about 40 minutes west of St. Louis' Gateway Arch, had the five-lane Wentzville Parkway built 10 years ago through cornfields. Today, Wal-Mart, Walgreen's, Home Depot and others line the corridor. A General Motors truck assembly plant opened. The population grew from about 5,000 in 1990 to more than 20,000 today.
"People come to Wentzville because it's the edge of civilization," says Bob Swank, director of economic development. "We're about the fringe of how far people are willing to move out."
The city requires that houses be at least 1,200 square feet and have a two-car garage. Retailers must have masonry facades in earth tones (the White Castle isn't white but off-white).
White Castle Liturgy
Gutbusters, gluies, stomach bombs, sliders:Let us name the little square thingswith their five stigmata inexplicable.
Not respectfully.
Their sanctum is no cardinal's cathedral
but a stainless porcelain & shining steel temple
where pure spirit meets impure food
and martyrdom is a matter of digestion.
Only street-corner bodhisattvas can swear
to the holiness of this liturgy
It's the idea of the thing, the form,so mysterious to snobs and dilettantes that is sacred to these fast-food militants. They choose by act of faith, of will by bun and burger to take their sacraments.
And in the glow of a greasy fluorescence,in the giddy gothic modernism of drive-in battlements and streamlined sandwiches,they give themselves over to steamy ecstacy. "If we had a king instead of a president, the White House would be a White Castle, and you can't have enough of those? "Found on a computer screen at a Highland"
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