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Old 12-26-2012, 08:49 PM
 
Location: Cleveland, OH
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Old 12-26-2012, 09:19 PM
 
Location: Minneapolis
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Northeast Minneapolis has been stuck on pre-gentrification for 20 plus years, so have large swathes of the south side. It took 30 years for Uptown to gentrify and it is still not all that expensive. Minneapolis is pretty much a status quo city, the pace of gentrification is glacial.
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Old 12-26-2012, 10:42 PM
 
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Northeast Minneapolis has been stuck on pre-gentrification for 20 plus years, so have large swathes of the south side. It took 30 years for Uptown to gentrify and it is still not all that expensive. Minneapolis is pretty much a status quo city, the pace of gentrification is glacial.
From one perspective that's kind of nice, it gives people options that don't exist in cities where neighborhoods gentrify faster. It seems that in the Northeast and California the pace of gentrification is quicker, it seems relentless in New York City.
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Old 12-26-2012, 11:57 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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West Kensington in Philly (also would add Francisville and Brewerytown in N Philly) and maybe Point Breeze and Grays Ferry in S Philly

FWIW to me Fishtown is very much still in transition as well

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/01/13...yout.html?_r=0
Philadelphia

Point Breeze, Brewerytown, Francisville and Fishtown are all currently being gentrified already. The thing with Fishtown is it is a lot of industrial land, ESPECIALLY on the waterfront.

Areas that are seeing per-gentrification I would say are:

South Philadelphia
Gray's Ferry
Dickinson Narrows

West Philadelphia
Dunlap
Haverford
West Powelton

Lower North Philadelphia
West Kensington
Sharswood
West Poplar
West and South sections of Hartranft
East and South sections of North Central

Northwest Philadelphia
Germantown
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Old 12-27-2012, 12:22 AM
 
Location: Minneapolis
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From one perspective that's kind of nice, it gives people options that don't exist in cities where neighborhoods gentrify faster. It seems that in the Northeast and California the pace of gentrification is quicker, it seems relentless in New York City.
One thing it does is it allows artists, musicians and bohemian types to live in cheap neighborhoods where they are not seen as interlopers because they have been part of the fabric of those neighborhoods for decades.

I think the stability of the city is driven by the fact that the "bad" parts of Minneapolis aren't really that bad and they aren't really very much of the city. As a result most of the city is relatively cheap and safe, people are less willing to pay a premium to live in a gentrified area.

I pay $750 a month for an apartment near Uptown because it is really walkable and right next to the lakes but if they raised my rent I would leave because I can find the same apartment in other nice enough and interesting neighborhoods for $650. I think a lot of people here have that mentality, it helps keep prices in check.

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Old 12-27-2012, 08:21 AM
 
Location: BMORE!
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East Baltimore from North avenue south.
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Old 12-28-2012, 01:14 PM
 
Location: North Las Vegas, NV
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Wow! Some great options... thanks.
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Old 12-28-2012, 01:42 PM
 
Location: south central
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Boston
In Boston the upper part of Roxbury is in pre-gentrification/gentrification mode around the Dudley Square/Dudley Street neighborhood. Even if there aren't white people moving in, which is why most people probably wouldn't think of it as gentrifying, it is becoming very artsy, sustainable, and overall a really cool place.

Roslindale isn't exactly a neighborhood that I would say would qualify to be gentrifiable in the sense of some other neighborhoods, but it is changing and a lot of artists are moving there. The Seaport is still holding strong as the current big gentrified neighb, but Roslindale looks like it will be next.

JP and Southie are in gentifying mode. Conversely, I'd say the South End has gone into some sort of post-gentrification thing.

Lowell
Of all the Massachusetts satellite cities (and Rhode Island ones), Lowell is probably the most into its pre-gentrifying stage. I wouldn't say it's the "hip" place to be right now, but downtown is starting to come along and I think it's going to be the first (and perhaps only except for New Bedford) satellite city to gentrify and become artsy and a bit more of a cultural nexus.
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Old 12-28-2012, 04:03 PM
 
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In Boston the upper part of Roxbury is in pre-gentrification/gentrification mode around the Dudley Square/Dudley Street neighborhood. Even if there aren't white people moving in, which is why most people probably wouldn't think of it as gentrifying, it is becoming very artsy, sustainable, and overall a really cool place. .
Most commonly, the gentrifiers of a neighborhood are white, but not always. Parts of Harlem in New York and Bronzeville in Chicago and probably other places are experiencing gentrification led by black people. Gentrification often involves race, but at root it's about class.
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Old 01-08-2013, 04:08 PM
 
Location: Oakland & Los Angeles, CA
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To the OP: I'd say OAKLAND, CA is the quintessential example of a city filled with not just one, but several of the neighborhoods you described.

Its unique position in the center of the Bay Area (20 minutes east of San Francisco and 45 minutes north of San Jose) means that artists, hipsters and the like have made this their capital. SF is now almost exclusively upper-middle class, and San Jose (and its surrounding areas) are where most of the nicely paid Silicon Valley employees live. Because SF is too expensive, and San Jose generally lacks that urban, gritty history that most artists & hipsters seem to view as 'cool & hip', Oakland has been the perfect blend of urban grit, culture, and affordability that this class of folks have enjoyed gentrifying.

West Oakland, which at one point was 85% Black, now seems to be half Black, a quarter hipster/artist, and a quarter 'other'. There are other areas, particularly the western half of North Oakland, that are seeing an influx of hipsters, musicians, and UC Berkeley students who now visibly travel via bike up and down Martin Luther King Jr.Way (a major boulevard in the city that, up until the mid-2000s, used to be lined with African-American youngsters).

Another Oakland neighborhood that may not be as "pre-gentrification", but is also not as gentrified as it will be, is "Uptown" Oakland. Most people who grew up in Oakland remember when "The Uptown" (as new residents like to call it) didn't really exist. Back in the day, it was mostly Black, and was just another section of Downtown Oakland that was largely abandoned, blighted, and was a hotspot for drugs and prostitution. When they remodeled and reopened the Fox Theater, that was when things started to change.

I'm sure within 10 years, all of Oakland North and Northwest of Downtown will be largely White. It's inevitable; West Oakland, which is really the gateway for folks traveling in and out of the Eastern Bay Area, is one BART stop and one freeway exit away from San Francisco, while North Oakland is bordered by Downtown on one side,(UC) Berkeley on another side, and the increasingly glamorous hotspot that is now Emeryville on the other. I don't necessarily think there's anything wrong with a Whiter population, but there is something wrong with so many people, most often families of color, being displaced as a result.
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