Buzz word Getrifacation

Getrifacation

You can see this in action in the perl district most recently. Side effect include:
1.)Starbucks on every street corner
2.)Outflux of mom-pop stores
3.)Outflux of poor residents
4.)Influx of rich residents
5.)loss of historical neiborhood

A urban planning prof. told me that something similar happened when PSU was built. Waay back when that used to be a very tight knit community of largely jewish people. Now it is full of high rises, oh and they didn't like tanner creek so they put it in a pipe so sw portland wouldn't have to look at it anymore.