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I've been waiting for you to explain to me how that is gentrification because those homes between 40th and Kessler are 200-250 years old. I sincerely don't think you know what gentrification is. There is a very fine line of segregation in that area which is basically 40th street.

As I said in another comment is that a very slight form of gentrification may have happened at Mass Ave and it was sort of almost happening in Broad Ripple, but the closest thing to gentrification was what happened in Fall Creek over by Talbotts. However, that isn't what it was.

It was a joint study/experiment between IPL and several different organizations (a few of which I'm involved with) to see what bulldozing all the abandoned and dillapidated buildings and replace them with energy efficient housing (which wasn't expensive) and installing proper urban forestry techniques to see it's effect on power usage. Turns out it reduced it dramatically while raising property value and lowering crime rates- proving several other studies regarding urban forestry.

Check my history- this all checks out. I'm an environmental consultant that works all over Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. I was kind of shitty last night, I blame it on alcohol and a bad mood. So I'm kind of sorry for that, but gentrification is not an issue at all.

In Wicker Park in the 90's, you could buy a 2 story building for 500k. People and investment groups were buying them up from the poor people who owned them at more than market rate, while the city raised property taxes, which effectively kicked out all the people who lived in those neighborhoods. So you would have a company buldoze buildings and erect new buildings that cost 3-5 million dollars, next to a 300k building (that was bought at 500k). The people who tried to hang on suddenly couldn't afford to buy groceries and stuff as more expensive businesses moved in. Gentrification is cultural suicide.

The rich come in and kill the actual culture kick out all the poor people and put up starbucks and whole foods everywhere while raising taxes and just completely fucking stuff up for normal people. That isn't what happened on North Meridian or anywhere else. The rich people move out to Carmel and Fischers. The population and infrastrucutre doesn't exist for this to happen with such a sprawl in Indianapolis. There is no premium on space.

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