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Originally Posted by kool maudit
That area was kind of isolated and seedy in the 1990s. Inglis up to around South Bland St. and around that square was marginal. It's very strange given that the areas it borders weren't like that.
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I guess it is because of the industry around there. South Hollis and Barrington were also run down. It's too bad because this area had a lot of nice buildings that were torn down and in some cases not replaced at all or replaced by marginally larger and uglier new buildings. These days it's mostly gentrified.
Noticed in Nova Scotia mentioned one of the rows along Inglis and how in the 80's it was rooming houses and the residents would often sit on the stoops. These days it's higher end condos. The building on the corner of Inglis and Victoria is a masonry rowhouse or apartment development covered in white vinyl siding. If that siding came off the area might instantly look better.
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