Essay About Cranberry Growth

Within cities are many neighborhoods. These neighborhoods can range from being very prosperous to less fortunate. Many various factors play a role in how a city or neighborhoods either grows or decays. Throughout the city of what we call Pittsburgh, there are many neighborhoods that are fast to develop, but there are also many that are decaying. One neighborhood that is fast growing is Cranberry Township. Cranberry started as a marsh land that settlers drained. The land serves as a good place for cranberries to grow. Once this land became farmland, cranberries faded away. Today, Cranberry is a very populated, prosperous area that keeps developing. Many things have happened and changed to allow this area to change so drastically. Transportation, businesses and real estate are of the many reasons Cranberry is very fast to develop. Frist transportation, as the automobile industry arise came through this area. This transportation created the development of roads. Roads have allowed such easy travel through this area. Many major road ways run through Cranberry. Interstate 79, U.S. Route 19, Route 228, and the Pennsylvania …show more content…
The roads that make it easy to commute allow for people from other areas to come in and work in the area. Cranberry Township has a strong developing business and retail market. The businesses include many large corporations. These different retail and business environments allow for an ample amount of jobs in which people thrive on. Also it is very easy to get any goods or services that may be needed as there is a tremendous amount of retail within the area. Along with goods and services, scenes (Macionis & Parrillo p. 218) are created. These scenes, or places for people to hang out, allow all sorts of different people to get together and share new ideas scenes (Macionis & Parrillo p. 218). Along with the business, the real estate market is very stable and helping Cranberry to