gentrify

The horizontal city is just too big to fully gentrify; there was always another neighborhood where an artist could find studio space, or a gallery could open up shop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025

“I could go stand there with a sign and say ‘don’t gentrify this Black community, hashtag cancel’ or I could actually do something more permanent,” she said.

From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2021

As more big businesses started to come in and gentrify all of Broadway, seeing that happen, it was traumatizing honestly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2021

Property developers should lure displaced Americans to gentrify the Rust Belt along the Great Lakes.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2021

He has watched other parts of metropolitan Cincinnati, including the West End and Over-the-Rhine, gentrify in ways that displaced longtime Black residents.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2021

As the neighborhood gentrifies and Chinese residents grow older and fewer, the clubs — called “tong,” “gungso” or “wui” in Cantonese — remain a vital social glue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2023

But as the area gentrifies — driven, in a major way, by the opening of SoFi Stadium — there’s concern that the city, as remembered through its classic rap lyrics, is disappearing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2022

“Usually when a neighborhood gentrifies, the new stores that open are mostly very expensive,” she said.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2017

Across the state border in Louisiana, New Orleans is facing similar problems as it develops and gentrifies.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 6, 2017

But as it gentrifies she realizes they are, in some ways, trapped.

From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2017

It happened place by place, inch by inch, a dusty disco ball left in the rummage while a Starbucks or a boutique gym rose to serve the freshly gentrified block around it.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

The front MacPherson struts and rear multi-links have been upgraded and thoroughly gentrified.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

"I think rap is getting gentrified," he told New Wave magazine.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026

Some of the neighborhoods currently at the center of debate were first gentrified by Mexicans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025

This is the Mission District, a gentrified hotbed of sushi, tapas, hip Mexican restaurants, and upscale furniture stores.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

This corner of Brooklyn is moving on to the next wave of gentrification: They’re culturally gentrifying the original gentrifiers, erasing the identity of precariously employed DJs who are experimenting with polyamory and microbangs.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026

The Mirage, a 32,000-square-foot, open-air dance venue on the outskirts of gentrifying north Brooklyn, looked like a home run to Axar Capital, Axelrod’s fund.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

The gentrifying Reagan years that followed gave rise to archly analytic work addressing institutional power.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2024

In the rapidly gentrifying Mexico City neighborhood of Juarez, tourists roll suitcases to luxury Airbnbs, and music bumps from pool parties at Soho House, a new members-only club.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2024

Crucially, Washington Hall was not saved in formaldehyde, as a sterile monument to historic preservation by a predominantly white institution for predominantly white admirers in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024