Dude, who even knows.
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Tumblr ad regarding a frequent bus line between downtown and specifically my neighborhood starting up, that’s nice targeting.
Also further confirmation that this neighborhood is going to be like, the neighborhood for the next two decades and Karafuto is in specifically the best 3-block radius for transit access.
Like, the way it turns out I correctly predicted and positioned for everything in the 2010s would leave me well-placed going forward but be a little eerie weird even if not for the whole bizarre miraculous total transformation that at some level I kind of understand as my reward for the otherwise “wait what do I get out of this?” task of reading the zeitgeist right all the way.
Definitely some small businesses and probably even a few small property owners over the last few years who’ve put a good deal of time and energy into making a go of things along the main drag here as the neighborhood comes up before bowing out whose efforts ultimately went not towards producing wealth or social influence for themselves but, by lifting up the neighborhood in general, for the larger property owners, developers, and realtors of the area.
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Mathing it out if those neighbors leave and combine the adjacent lot for multifamily construction when their kids move out in a decade or so, depending on number of units feasible (and basement units/extended family compounds already here) the new building would suddenly constitute from 40% to 75% of all the households living on the block. Which is both the promise and cost of residential densification, I suppose.
I mean depending on the market it could feasibly become only 4 townhouses.
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The multiple work crew circus building my neighbor’s retaining wall finished out with African immigrants doing final cleanup and then Mexican teenagers laying a course of bricks on top
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Neighborhood has exactly the right mix of small properties to open things in, medium properties to adaptively reuse for a decade then turn over, and big auto-service or for-construction-crews-to-pick-up-going-to-the-job retail (tile, carpet, plumbing fixtures, countertops, landscaping) that can turn over big intact plots for 4-over-1s, this area is really gonna be the future, won’t stall out like the closer Eastside like Belmont and Hawthorne where you’ve got to go narrow plot-by-plot cause there’s like one store in the middle with 4 apartments on the 2nd floor whose owner juuuust doesn’t find selling out worth it vs. that rent
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Yeah so gentrification turns out to basically take exactly the paths I expected just first-time homeowners show up 7 years before young cool kid renters, apparently
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Neighbor’s new retaining wall, replacing rotting railroad ties.
Me: looking much better!
Also me: you know you caused this
Me: naw, the area’s been coming up in general!
Also me: and the specific mechanism of that here is you moved in and weeded and cleaned up this block every week for years so it doesn’t look like a goddamn wasteland
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Think the older guy in the house behind me was a little standoffish at first because people in this house hadn’t had the best reputation before and here I was a young guy and now the fence is falling down, but then we had to end up dealing with the trees in the right-of-way in the bit between where it parallels my yard and his, and he’s from an old-stock Cascadian family where they all ended up working with trees and wood, he was some sort of technician with the Forest Service, so we’ve really been brought together talking over tree care and local plant life and growing conditions, it’s sweet
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