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Seattle deserves mention. Not that it ever was super rough like DC and NYC, but it is one of the most completely gentrified American cities in my opinion. Most neighborhoods don't have even a slight sense of being rough around the edges.
Manhattan (lower mostly) has been highly gentrified and yuppified. Brooklyn at least has character even though some parts have just been utterly hipsterized.
Philly does not have more gentrification than DC. Philly city proper has twice the land mass and twice the population thus it not being AS urgent to displace so many residents as DC does. Even when they are displaced there are more options within the city that low income residents can choose from. I actually think DC has the most Brooklyn/NY like levels of gentrification than any of these places do. Chicago I have not been to in over a decade so I can't say, but I could imagine it's a lot. I have never been to SF but I have heard the stories.
Agree on DC and Philly - Philly has picked up this pace but at the levels of DC, no
twenty years ago if someone told me Fistown would be gentrifying today I would have quickly shown them the bridge I was selling
Philly is more doing this sort of one block at time wheras DC is doing wholesale neighborhood shifts in years - it is pretyy amazing really - still not as large scale as NYC but what is
New York and Chicago have and will continue to experience a great deal of gentrification. I predict Philadelphia will be next and in another 10 years Detroit is also going to get hipsterized. Get ready for it, Detroit!
New York, yes; Chicago had but not so much currently. Philly is already happening; Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Baltimore, yes.
Cleveland has seen a lot, and will likely see a lot more. Fortune Magazine dubbed us a probable New Brooklyn. The seeds have been planted throughout the city, in the form of amenity filled districts, and the neighborhoods are starting to change. Tremont and Ohio City have already blossomed, Detroit Shoreway is well on its way to blossoming, North Collinwood is about to see a burst of new businesses, Downtown has shot to the moon, University Circle, our second Downtown, has seen a flurry of new developments, with more on the way. Cleveland is becoming a very healthy city.
Really doubt that LA will reach such levels of gentrification. It's not walkable at all (which seems to be a prerequisite for current gentrifying cities), depressed job market, sprawling neighborhoods of dumpy little single family homes, some of the worst schools in the country. Besides being near the beach (where people actually want to live) there's not the kind of draw to LA that NYC/SF boasts.
I'm not sure this is really true... Silver Lake, Echo Park, Eagle Rock and Highland Park have many totally unwalkable areas (mostly due to terrain) yet are probably the most traditionally-gentrified neighborhoods in the city. You are also seeing a lot of gentrification in the somewhat-walkable Mid-City area - the thing is they may be "dumpy little homes" to you, but they are actually quite architecturally-historic and many of those homes just need a scrub-down.
Cleveland has seen a lot, and will likely see a lot more. Fortune Magazine dubbed us a probable New Brooklyn. The seeds have been planted throughout the city, in the form of amenity filled districts, and the neighborhoods are starting to change. Tremont and Ohio City have already blossomed, Detroit Shoreway is well on its way to blossoming, North Collinwood is about to see a burst of new businesses, Downtown has shot to the moon, University Circle, our second Downtown, has seen a flurry of new developments, with more on the way. Cleveland is becoming a very healthy city.
I don't think a "New Brooklyn" is what Cleveland should really be striving for. Dilute local culture to an unrecognizable level so hipsters and yups can go in and homogenize everything? Pass.
I don't think a "New Brooklyn" is what Cleveland should really be striving for. Dilute local culture to an unrecognizable level so hipsters and yups can go in and homogenize everything? Pass.
Is that what Brooklyn is? I didn't realize that. I just took "New Brooklyn" to mean a formerly hard luck area that has turned itself around.
Couldn't we argue as a whole LA's metro has seen a decent level of gentrification with the dwindling black population that has clearly been leaving, not just the city but the metro area?
This is interesting. In the east most cities are always seeing a slight increase in black populations.
This is interesting. In the east most cities are always seeing a slight increase in black populations.
No, most northern cities have seen a slight decline in the last decade. There has been little or no increase in black population in northern cities for the last couple decades.
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