How Gentrification Changed A D.C. Neighborhood - Part 2
Part Two of a series on how gentrification is changing the D.C.'s 14th and T neighborhood.
The slow fade of the old 14th and T is underway...Cafe Saint-Ex, the trendy bistro that arrived two years ago, is hosting oyster night and Bastille Day night and is packing it in on weekends. Paradise Liquor on the other corner has less than two months left on its lease....Two entrepreneurs strike a tentative agreement with the landlord, and the sign for a beverage license goes in the window: Paradise is going to become a sushi bar....not far from the new liquor store is a luxury condo project called the Lofts at Brightwood, with a rooftop terrace and a restaurant featuring 'upscale diasporan cooking and an eclectic lounge atmosphere.'"
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glorification
the article raises important issues, but it wasn't long ago that urban liquor stores were widely considered a blight on the communities in which they operate. the article celebrates one that is being priced out of the neighborhood, and laments it's movement to an ungentrified location.
would have been more topical to focus more on the people who are being displaced rather than the liquor store.