Gentrification:Before and After .....Post Pics!! (living, places, Boston, neighborhood)

[nate14ri]

I'd like to learn about gentrification in your city. What areas have turned run-down areas into thriving neighborhoods....Places like Williamsburg and Park Slope in Brooklyn and South End Boston. What were some of the factors for this to occur? What areas are next?

[censusdata]

Here is an industrial site in Louisville that is having student apartments built on it for the Univ of Louisville. The old building will be turned into a parking garage





After





But my favorite one is the former massive Clarksdale Public Housing Complex (where 150 were murdered since 1960) was torn down and replaced with a mixed income area with the most beautiful new Victorian architecture I've ever seen

Before:





After:

[openheads]

Jersey City waterfront

[somebodymiami]

^^ even though that is nasty pic, i still find it beautiful, specially with WTC's, and i was there this Christmas very nice place. jersey city has turned around alot.