boom town

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Reminiscent of a frontier boom town, the human-built industrial port refines fossil fuels at a relentless pace.

From Los Angeles Times

Since the 1980s, hundreds of thousands of the plants have been removed to make way for renewable energy facilities or housing and shopping centers in desert boom towns such as Lancaster and Palmdale.

From Los Angeles Times

Work in the mines was always grueling, but in the heyday of coal, it made for a glittering strand of little mountain boom towns.

From New York Times

Masses who went on to seed their own patches of green heaven in the blooming suburbias of post-World War II boom towns.

From Los Angeles Times

During the 1980s, development in desert boom towns such as Lancaster and Palmdale replaced hundreds of thousands of Joshua trees with housing tracts and shopping centers.

From Los Angeles Times