Gentrification in San Diego (La Mesa, Imperial Beach: apartment, house, neighborhood)

[supercad55]

What cities near downtown are gentrifying the quickest?

[nmguy]

Seems that the César Park area is changing pretty quickly.

[hitman619]

Hell Probably all of it in the next 10 to 15 years. Friends of the famliy just bought a house built in the 1920 down in Sherman Heights.
#EchoParkGentrifcationPartDuex

[moved]

Originally Posted by hitman619

Hell Probably all of it in the next 10 to 15 years. Friends of the famliy just bought a house built in the 1920 down in Sherman Heights.
#EchoParkGentrifcationPartDuex

This is true. It's happening VERY slowly. I see changes, but it's going to take a long time for it to be like the EV. I lived in the EV before it gentrified. There were a few apartment buildings, the 7-11, and the fast food places around the trolley built before that, and when I moved out in 2008, and it really took off.

It just doesn't happen overnight.

[RosieSD]

These may not fit the description of "near downtown" but the areas where I am noticing the biggest changes are:

Imperial Beach, especially along Seacoast Drive.
Downtown La Mesa area.

[supercad55]

Thanks for the information much needed advice

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by RosieSD

These may not fit the description of "near downtown" but the areas where I am noticing the biggest changes are:

Imperial Beach, especially along Seacoast Drive.
Downtown La Mesa area.

We had a shot at a place that was right on the beach there for 275K in 1998 but passed on it because it was pretty much a super highway of illegals. That property is well over a million now. If only we had known they would clean it up.

[hitman619]

Originally Posted by 1AngryTaxPayer

We had a shot at a place that was right on the beach there for 275K in 1998 but passed on it because it was pretty much a super highway of illegals. That property is well over a million now. If only we had known they would clean it up.

I know right!
My sister sold her property in IB because it was becoming too seedy. She bought at the bottom in some newly developed area called Eastlake

[NYSD1995]

I would say the only area in SD truly gentrifying (moving from poor to wealthy) is the greater North Park area and downtown. All other areas are cleaning up but very slowly, i.e. progress can be measured in decades not years.

[kettlepot]

However, if someone were looking to get in on the ground floor of the next big thing, I would look at Normal Heights. There is a neighborhood business community ready to blossom, it's lower rents are attracting interesting/creative people rather than gritty people, and it still retains a core residential area of older homes with good bones when residents are looking to move up out of apartment living.