By Brandon Hollingsworth, APR News
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Tuscaloosa, Al – For a town that just hit its teenage years, Pike Road seems more like a place in its adulthood. Located along U-S 231 in south-central Montgomery County, the city has seen its population skyrocket from 300 to more than three-thousand in just ten years.
In fact, new estimates from the University of Alabama's Center for Business and Economics Research ranking 460 of the state's towns and cities by population growth place Pike Road at the top of the heap. The city's population grew 957 percent from 2000 to 2009.
APR Morning Edition host Brandon Hollingsworth caught up with Pike Road's mayor, Gordon Stone, on the phone at a local restaurant to talk about the boom.