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Originally Posted by spoonman109
Depends on the neighborhood. East end, shadyside, Lawrenceville, parts of east liberty and friendship are gentrified. Lots of other neighborhoods your right are not. Also Pittsburgh has a gentrified downtown. Most of it.
But a lot of the non gentrified parts of Pittsburgh are kind of awesome. Their like old timey neighborhoods and the gentrifying is starting there like Millvale and sharpsburg.
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The vast, vast majority of the City of Pittsburgh is not gentrified though. Surrounding urban boroughs are not gentrified either.
Lawrenceville and now East Liberty área have seen gentrification in the sense of how we’re defining it these days, with businesses and younger, wealthier residents moving in, raising rents, and displacing longtime residents. Those are really the only two neighborhoods among 90 that have seen gentrification in the recent past. And i don’t think a “gentrified downtown” is even a thing. Downtown Pittsburgh hardly had any residents aside from senior citizen apartments for many decades until very recently. No one has had to move out because no one was there. Apartment/condo conversions and higher end new res construction did not displace existing residents. Downtown has become much nicer and more active, but that’s not gentrification.
Shadyside has always been a mix of very wealthy and college students. It remains that way to this day. There is no gentrification there.
I agree about the non-gentrified parts being cool. As I said, it’s really most of the city neighborhoods and blue-collar boroughs in the core. There’s a remaining authenticity there... those places just need some tlc. Sharpsburg and Millvale have both seen a lot of investment recently. Given their intact-ness and close proximity to Lawrenceville/East End, I imagine both will gentrify significantly.
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