This Gulf Coast city has ridden a rocket of a rebirth in recent years, propelled by a more than 30-fold increase in oil production at the nearby Eagle Ford Shale since the beginning of 2010. Corpus Christi’s economy went from stagnant to zooming, growing by 8% in 2012 and 6% in 2013. Workers flush with cash have helped drive average home prices to nearly $200,000 from $150,000 four years earlier. The formerly sleepy port is bustling with crude shipments destined chiefly for refineries elsewhere in the U.S. and Canada. An old grain elevator now unloads the sand used to crack shale formations through fracking and release oil and gas. Officials are building […]