Posted on 07/10/2014 1:12:33 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
“I don’t have any sense of the local dynamics, but one would think that distressed waterfront property just across from Center City Philadelphia would have redevelopment potential. Of course, I live in Gentrification Central (D.C.), so I tend to see the brighter side of things.”
There is no demand for the waterfront property at all; I guess the aquarium and battleship were supposed to drive up the prices.
The battleship should have been put up here (due to a much higher population of Jerseyans); they were looking at sites in Bayonne and Jersey City, but supposedly didn’t want it to compete with the Intrepid in NYC.
Now it sits down there, featured in Philly tourist literature, and loses a lot of money...
“You just gave me an idea for a Plymouth Plantation kind of tourist attraction where tourists experience simulated carjackings. rapes and murders while the actors speak in the original dialect. Probably appeal to the GTA generation.”
Why not? If Detroit can have “zombie tourism”, it might work...
Sometimes it’s a bridge too far for gays. They tried gentrifying the Palmer Park neighborhood on the north side of Detroit (which has a lot of beautiful art deco apartment blocks), but the crime was too much and they left en masse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Park_Apartment_Building_Historic_District
That’s sad. If the gays can’t do it, there’s only one chance left: the Hispanics. They come in greater numbers, and their gangs can whip the Amish gangs. But the Hispanics want to work, so maybe there’s nothing in Detroit to attract them in the first place.
There is the Mexicantown neighborhood on the SW side of Detroit, and it appears to be doing well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicantown,_Detroit
bttt
bump
I’m not surprised. My comment was not entirely tongue in cheek. I’m all in favor of controlling the border, but still: I’ve seen a couple of demographically challenged neighborhoods in DC transformed by the hispanic influx.
Sometimes it works, sometimes not. I live in a neighborhood that was transformed... it didn’t work here. We had Mexican neighbors of dubious immigration status on one side of us for 7 years, they were horrible (called the cops on them more times in their first month in residence than we had in the 33 years prior). Ethiopian immigrants bought the house and it’s been a lot more pleasant since.
camden, newark and detroit are toilets...flush them away, take away their charters and just do away with these cities...NJ’s budget is about 35 billion, and Newark gets about 2 billion in subsidies per year in school and municipal funding and so on..all these towns is siphon away at the budgets..
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