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Originally Posted by ardecila
^ Eh sort of. Andersonville is technically part of Edgewater and certainly is gentrified, but the area around Broadway and Sheridan never had a critical mass of businesses to seem vibrant.
I mean, Broadway in Edgewater looks just like any random block of Cicero Ave or Harlem in the bungalow belt. You'd never know there was a 4-track rapid transit line in the corridor with densities of 35000 ppsm and higher.
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yea i just edited my post to point that out. I dont see anything changing with Sheridan. those retirement highrises arent going anywhere, and its one of the streets that the city dosent really seem to have any interest in traffic calming. there still some lots, but as you said, its already fairly dense. just....not a super enjoyable sort of dense from a pedestrian standpoint. not much mom/pop retail because there isnt anywhere to put it. the wind tunnel effect off the lake dosent help either.
Broadway has more potential but again....similar constraints to Sheridan. not an easy trend to reverse given that the Lakewood Balmoral folks seem to block anything other than stripmalls and that most cars treat it as an expressway up there.
while Broadway isnt great, walk down any of the residential streets and theyre all well maintained and what little SFHs there are list for millions. its already very dense as you point out. when i think gentrification, i think of totally depressed areas that see sudden influxes. that just dosent quite match with Edgewater, which IMO has always been a pretty good place to live, at least in recent memory. i think the term gets thrown around a little too loosely.