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QUOTE=Borntoolate85;51245928]In Texas, Houston's Uptown and the Inwood Road corridor/district in far North Dallas and adjacent Addison come to mind.[/quote]
Uptown Houston and Buckhead are very similar areas, probably the most similar comparisons for the topic of this thread.
Both are districts of fast-growing metro areas, and districts with high incomes, high end stores, good restaurants and bars, and expensive flashy lux housing including townhomes, posh condos and mansions.
What makes Buckhead particularly unusual is that it's a rare instance where high-rise development was allowed immediately behind old-money neighborhoods. Generally, old money has been so hostile to new development that major retail / office development (which bring a lot of outsiders into the neighborhood) have been shunted into less politically powerful areas nearby.
North Hills had its start as Raleigh's "Midtown" when its then-new owner had a demographic comparison done and realized its neighbors were as affluent as their peers in Buckhead or SouthPark.
With that history in mind, the Bethesda comparison is more apt than any Virginia comparison; both Clarendon and Tysons were situated in typically middle-class suburbs. Also:
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Brookline, MA though it's significantly more dense. Some more rural neighborhoods lined with mansions, and there's an intense amount of commercial activity along the main arteries.
Chestnut Hill is perhaps a better analogue, but neither it nor Brookline are major employment centers.
Cambridge is now a white-collar employment center, but that focus is in East Cambridge - historically Cambridgeport, a working-class manufacturing and shipping area.
What makes Buckhead particularly unusual is that it's a rare instance where high-rise development was allowed immediately behind old-money neighborhoods. Generally, old money has been so hostile to new development that major retail / office development (which bring a lot of outsiders into the neighborhood) have been shunted into less politically powerful areas nearby.
North Hills had its start as Raleigh's "Midtown" when its then-new owner had a demographic comparison done and realized its neighbors were as affluent as their peers in Buckhead or SouthPark.
With that history in mind, the Bethesda comparison is more apt than any Virginia comparison; both Clarendon and Tysons were situated in typically middle-class suburbs.
The major difference with Bethesda compare to Buckhead is that it truly lack a "destination mall" (No, Westfield Montgomery is not it...), which for DMV is in Tysons (Tysons Galleria & Tysons Corner Center is 100% identical to Phipps Plaza & Lenox Square). You can make the argument for North Arlington / McLean / Tysons, but that's getting a little bit too greedy geographically. Either way, Friendship Heights area used to be close enough to Bethesda to group together for "luxury retail", but FH had gone way downhill shopping-wise. Uber luxury brands are probably not going to open up shops in both Bethesda and Tysons as they're not THAT far (even though traffic can make it feel very far) from each other.
It's also where the Uptown Houston comparison comes in - Galleria Houston being THAT mall, next to nearby shopping areas like Highland Village and River Oaks District being similar to Buckhead Village. The difference is that while Uptown Houston is also nearby old money areas like River Oaks/Afton Oaks on one side and Tanglewood/West Oaks on the other side of 610 (and further out, Memorial Villages), it's also just north of Gulfton which is...ehh...poor.
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Uptown Dallas and Houston
