Jamestown CEO: Gentrification Not Bad Word (Atlanta: cul-de-sac, sales, neighborhoods)

[cqholt]

“People throw out gentrification like it’s a bad word, and that is an oversimplification,” Jamestown CEO Matt Bronfman said at American Jewish Committee’s ACCESS in the ATL event Thursday, June 22, at the Industrious office space at Ponce City Market. “You want to have some degree of gentrification because you need to improve your tax base and support public services like arts, education and parks. So some degree of gentrification is absolutely necessary if you are going to be part of a successful city.”

Jamestown CEO: Gentrification Not Bad Word | Atlanta Jewish Times

[glovenyc]

I think gentrification is a double-edge sword, that comes with pros and cons.

[atlHawks]

He's right. People are offended by everything these days.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by glovenyc

I think gentrification is a double-edge sword, that comes with pros and cons.

If we enact zoning laws that require every project set aside % of workforce and affordable housing, in exchange for higher density and/or lower parking minimums. We can ensure that new development will be equitable.

[JPD]

He's right, based just on CQ's pull quote. But as with everything, there needs to be balance because there are a lot of unintended but predictable consequences with gentrification.

[glovenyc]

What I find interesting is that in some of the areas that have been fully gentrified, some of the original gentrifiers who were accused of displacing the original residents are now being priced out and displaced themselves. Dog eat dog world.

[chiatldal]

If it's not a problem I trouble dog dare him to go Bankhead and gather the people in the neighborhood and say this.

[joey86]

Originally Posted by chiatldal

If it's not a problem I trouble dog dare him to go Bankhead and gather the people in the neighborhood and say this.

What would they know about gentrification? Bankhead isn't being gentrified. Finding a group of people who have a knee-jerk reaction against progress isn't proof that progress is bad.

[LTCM]

Originally Posted by chiatldal

If it's not a problem I trouble dog dare him to go Bankhead and gather the people in the neighborhood and say this.

If Cobb joing MARTA isn't a problem, I double dog dare you to go to an upper middle class Cobb neighborhood and tell them we should charge them a 1% sales tax so they can have the opportunity to have a MARTA bus stop on their cul-de-sac street.

See how ridiculous that sounds when we apply it to another controversial subject?

(For the record, I'm not commenting on MARTA as much as I am the craziness of chiatldal's comment.)

[chiatldal]

Originally Posted by joey86

What would they know about gentrification? Bankhead isn't being gentrified. Finding a group of people who have a knee-jerk reaction against progress isn't proof that progress is bad.

You missed the point, they wouldn't want their neighborhood be gentrified, so it come off as elitist.

Also calling it progress is questionable. Progress is people reaching upward mobility. Not dumping the poor in one place to another. that's not fixing the issue.

This not whole room, but the first thing I notice it's nothing but white people in photo shot from the link. It's blizzard to go to a Jewish Committee to talk about gentrification is good, which would be in black communities just saying. I want someone to go one of the lower class neighborhoods, to their neighborhood meeting and say this. You mostly would get a very different reaction.




But article headline is super misleading. He talking more about creating mix income community then trying push around the poor which is a good thing. While the article is placing more emphasis of trying to defend the word gentrification. Which is a whole another point which would draw negatively.