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An overhead plan view of the new Bridgewater tract housing development being built in Springfield, OH.
In 1914, real estate developer Harry Kissell used a rousing speech and the city’s growing population to have Springfield, Ohio named
America’s Best 60,000 City.
In the years that followed, Springfield
kept growing. By 1970, the city’s population had grown to
80,000 people.
losing its population. Today, the city’s home to around
60,000 – the same number of people as in 1914.
Today, Harry Kissell’s grandson is a developer in Springfield. And he says a construction project now underway holds promise for the city’s resurgence.