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Old 06-01-2015, 04:00 PM
 
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Can I just ask you all that turn your nose up at "gentrification"...isn't it better that Normal Heights and North Park and reaching their best potential? I don't see how they were all that charming before this boom, they were full of dollar and liquor stores. Many of the businesses on the blocks sat empty and neglected. I much prefer to see these neighborhoods opening up stylish restaurants and lounges than be home to bail bond offices.
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Old 06-01-2015, 07:32 PM
 
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Can I just ask you all that turn your nose up at "gentrification"...isn't it better that Normal Heights and North Park and reaching their best potential? I don't see how they were all that charming before this boom, they were full of dollar and liquor stores. Many of the businesses on the blocks sat empty and neglected. I much prefer to see these neighborhoods opening up stylish restaurants and lounges than be home to bail bond offices.
I don't think any of the replies have had a tone of "turning their noses up". Sure it may be nice for some people to see areas that were slightly rough around the edges become gentrified with pretty storefronts, but what that tends to do is push many long time residents out and also has an overall effect on the middle classes getting priced out of areas too. I also think that neighborhoods do lose their charm once they become gentrified. The introduction of new shops and restaurants that starts off slowly, often morphs into a complete transformation (whether you view it as positive or negative) of an entire area that now looks like so many other urbanized "hip" neighborhoods in any large city around the country.
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