Frogtown is definitely coming up as a desirable neighborhood but not everyone who lived there was a criminal. Long-time, law-abiding citizens who didn’t give up on it (and more accurately didn’t have the option of leaving) are now being forced out due to high rents. Because renters are the ones who lose in these neighborhoods.
This is a weird one. I was employed by a woodworking factory from 1999 till 2014 on glover place, on the river, in frog town. It had been there since 1950. The economic collapse made it so we had to sell one of the three properties on the river, on glover place, to get a little more liquid. A developer made an offer for all three properties or else no deal. It was for an amount that would have taken us 20 years to net. There were 100 mexican carpenters and laborers and 10 working class whites administrating. The developers ploy was to get his daughter back from art school in ny, back home to la. She got a huge rustic art space to manage for trust fund artists and artisans - probably 15 of them nowadays - as they need square footage for the muse hang in. 120 people had to figure out how to feed their families. It’s a weird one
Displacement tends to hit renters first and hardest - either through direct rent increases, STR conversions or remodeling. Incumbent homeowners in California are uniquely protected from it by Prop 13, and those rate caps are passed through inheritance; I'm not sure what kind of income-based property tax adjustments Philly or PA at the state level have, but it can drive displacement even of homeowners in places where income isn't factored into property tax assessments.
One of my go-to metrics of "good gentrification" vs "bad gentrification" is how many families with kids send them to the local public schools vs. going private or moving to the suburbs at earlierst opportunity. In that area it seems just from what I can glean from a quick poke through the internet as though both Adaire Elementary (K-8 actually) in Fishtown and Dorris Place Elementary in Frogtown have strong community support, Dorris has a lower percentage of "economically disadvantaged" kids per US News' rankings at 64% to Adaire's 99%, and Dorris sends more kids to Thomas Starr King middle and Marshall High schools (which are located in areas that gentrified before Frogtown did) than Fishtown kids go on to Penn Treaty high school (which is actually in Fishtown but whose catchment includes Kensington). Is that impression correct?
I actually really like gentrification haha it’s nice having safer areas to go. My only question is does it make the bad places worse for people that can’t afford the newly gentrified area?
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Frogtown is definitely coming up as a desirable neighborhood but not everyone who lived there was a criminal. Long-time, law-abiding citizens who didn’t give up on it (and more accurately didn’t have the option of leaving) are now being forced out due to high rents. Because renters are the ones who lose in these neighborhoods.
This is a weird one. I was employed by a woodworking factory from 1999 till 2014 on glover place, on the river, in frog town. It had been there since 1950. The economic collapse made it so we had to sell one of the three properties on the river, on glover place, to get a little more liquid. A developer made an offer for all three properties or else no deal. It was for an amount that would have taken us 20 years to net. There were 100 mexican carpenters and laborers and 10 working class whites administrating.
The developers ploy was to get his daughter back from art school in ny, back home to la. She got a huge rustic art space to manage for trust fund artists and artisans - probably 15 of them nowadays - as they need square footage for the muse hang in.
120 people had to figure out how to feed their families.
It’s a weird one
Displacement tends to hit renters first and hardest - either through direct rent increases, STR conversions or remodeling. Incumbent homeowners in California are uniquely protected from it by Prop 13, and those rate caps are passed through inheritance; I'm not sure what kind of income-based property tax adjustments Philly or PA at the state level have, but it can drive displacement even of homeowners in places where income isn't factored into property tax assessments.
Fishtown has so many amenities now that never would have been possible in its formerly grungy state. Obviously, a good thing!
One of my go-to metrics of "good gentrification" vs "bad gentrification" is how many families with kids send them to the local public schools vs. going private or moving to the suburbs at earlierst opportunity. In that area it seems just from what I can glean from a quick poke through the internet as though both Adaire Elementary (K-8 actually) in Fishtown and Dorris Place Elementary in Frogtown have strong community support, Dorris has a lower percentage of "economically disadvantaged" kids per US News' rankings at 64% to Adaire's 99%, and Dorris sends more kids to Thomas Starr King middle and Marshall High schools (which are located in areas that gentrified before Frogtown did) than Fishtown kids go on to Penn Treaty high school (which is actually in Fishtown but whose catchment includes Kensington). Is that impression correct?
Positive for whom?
Society (and the urban fabric)
Frog town also has a little factory that makes campers and a showroom it’s so awesome to see something industrial nearby too
very cool spot in frogtown
I actually really like gentrification haha it’s nice having safer areas to go.
My only question is does it make the bad places worse for people that can’t afford the newly gentrified area?