re: Can BR really be saved?

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young professionals

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Huge understatement. Cincy’s and one of the country’s most dangerous neighborhoods 15 years ago is now the most expensive per sq. Ft. It took young skinny Jean professionals to suck it up to work close to company HQs here.

The other catalyst was a non-profit bought all the shite properties, renovated all of them with shitloads of tax credits. Bars, restaurants, entertainment followed right behind.

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Doubtful. It would require a lot of gentrification which would require a desirable city for young professionals to live in. More likely it will continue to slide.

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I don't like the word gentrification.I realize it is a correct word, but insofar as it has been used pejoratively to partly mean affluent replacing poor it just don't care for. For instance, if Tigerland were to be razed and rebuilt into something highly demanded by LSU students is that truly gentrification or is it restoring order that should have never been lost in the first place? Seas of Section 8 should not be surrounding campus. I recently drove on Rittner in the GD. Couldn't believe that there is culture back there now. When I was a student, that area was predominately rented by upper class and grad students with more a bit of bohemian spirit. The change going on now is disturbing and certainly will not help the Garden District overall - sure there was always hood to the east and north, but hood encroaching in the GD proper is a problem. Perhaps I am overstating as I only saw a couple of rentals on Rittner like this, but it can and will spread.