Small town growth

As I was driving around our small town today I looked around at all the growth that has taken place and the growth that is happening as I write this blog.

When we arrived here almost 10 years ago the town was relatively small about 4,000 people. It had 2 small grocery store 1 small discout store and a few banks and gas stations. If you wanted to eat out your best bet was the Cross roads restaurant or if you wanted a bad experience Denny's. Not much for entertainment either 1 movie rental store and 1 run down bowling alley. All in all we liked that it was small.

But things change. Our population is over 6,000 we still only have 2 grocery stores but they have been remodeled and one was bought by a bigger company in Idaho. We now have a variety of places to eat quiznos, wendy's arby's burger king, artic circle, a steak house that I use to work at called Bar T L Steakhouse, Dominos pizza and Figaros take and bake pizza these are just some of the restaurants we have now. We have more entertainment as well. we have 3 movie rentals and a new bowling alley, a recreational dept. for the city which provides activities to all ages. A skate park, We have a fancy new library and several new parks. We see our raods torn up because of the new Utopia services. And they are in the planning stages for a new high school and a few new churches and they are building a new hospital.
When we moved here there were mostly farms but lately we have more new subdivisions going where the farms used to be . We had only a few places of employment like lazy boy and Auto liv but we now have Malto Meal, West liberty lunch meats. Toyota and Brstol myers are putting in plants in the area. And I hear rumors of a walmart going in by the new Hampton Inn and I Hop in town.
I like all the changes but I hope it doesn't become a new Lehi! Small Town life is what we like and hoepfully it stays that way!