It's probably happened since the day began, but the next person who calls Wilmington home will up the city's population to 100,000, meaning the Port City truly is a big city.
At least, it is depending on your perspective.
"The answer likely depends on your frame of reference," says the Star-News
"[New Jersey transplant Catherine] Fox, for example, said that the pizza was better in Jersey, but Englishtown didn't have festivals every weekend, a vibrant cultural arts scene or a university. 'I have a sort of list of things I'm going to do' in Wilmington, she said.
"But to David Carnell, a retired DuPont employee who moved from the Philadelphia area to Wilmington to retire 26 years ago, Wilmington can't be compared to large northern cities, like the City of Brotherly Love. 'It's a medium-size city at best, I would say,' Carnell said.
"According to the U.S. Census, reaching 100,000 residents will put Wilmington in a category with 254 other U.S. cities with populations of at least that size - from Cambridge, Mass., with 100,135 people, to New York City with 8,143,197. ..."
Perhaps newly-named Mayor Bill Saffo puts it best: Wilmington is a "big town growing into a city."
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