Gentrification

Harbor East Gentrification Leaves Mid-Income Workers Looking Elsewhere

22 May 2012

By David GutmanCapital News ServiceBALTIMORE - Twenty-five years ago, the area around Baltimore's Ha...

In Austin, A Street Festival Offers A Vision of Modern City Planning

22 May 2012

My home town of Austin, Tex. is, like many cities, experiencing rapid growth and all of the challenges that go along with adding hundreds of thousands of people to a region in the span of several years. Traffic, congestion, gentrification, etc. A lot of this growth and expansion is happening in the downtown core, which is an overall benefit to the city. However, downtown Austin was planned and ...

Gentrification Watch: Neighbor-Enraging 'Burg Club Might Become Daycare Center

21 May 2012

Alexander Dimitrov, owner of NYC's "ultimate multi-national drunken-Balkan disco divebar extravaganza," had grand plans of turning 60 N. 1st Street into a night club, neighbors' opinions be damned. "This is a commercial area, and when you bought your property you...