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Originally Posted by muppet
ADORE the middle one, it's astounding areas like that haven't already gone full Starbucks, though I'm sure it'll happen inevitably. Are the residents there old timers/ the same community?
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Honestly I can't imagine a scenario where Lower Price Hill would ever become a gentrified Starbucksland type of neighborhood. It's quite isolated, and wedged between the base of a huge hill, the river, and heavy industry, a waste treatment facility,and a giant rail yard:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ci...!4d-84.5120196
It's less intense than it used to be, but the area still feels very gritty. As for the population, it's quite poor as you'd probably imagine. But it's actually mostly Appalachian, though in the last 20 years or so, it's become home to a decent community of immigrants from Central America, who have also settled in fairly large (for Cincy) numbers up the hill in East Price Hill. Appalachian dominated neighborhoods seem like some of the last places to gentrify in Cincinnati...I think this is true in Columbus too, and probably most cities with concentrations of urban Appalachians.
It is a bit of a relic of how the whole basin used to look before urban renewal, freeways, and 50+ years of decline. Quite sad to think of all that was lost, but even with so much gone, Cincinnati has more historic fabric than most US cities. No part of the basin was completely spared from the forces of urban renewal, though there are remnants of what was in nearly every part.
From Pendleton in the east:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1106...7i16384!8i8192
hillside tenements in northern OTR on the north:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1169...7i13312!8i6656
some solid rows in the West End:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1182...7i13312!8i6656
and the aforementioned Lower Price Hill on the extreme SW. Momentum has been swinging in the right direction in Cincinnati for the past 10 years or so, as the city population has slowly started to increase again for the first time since the 1960s. I'm hopeful that's what is left of the core can mostly be saved, and some new infill can help to begin to correct the mistakes of the past. Which is basically what I believe is happening in Detroit's core, and what I hope continues there, too!