Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, and enter the oft-maligned world of gentrification. Come hither, if you dare, into the easily misunderstood landscape of hyper-development! See! community activists and real estate moguls duke it out over skyrocketing rents, ballooning taxes and precious parking spaces! Watch! as condos, townhomes and duplexes sprout up, fast as lightning, right before your very eyes! Marvel! at all the cute new retail shops! Gasp! as neighborhoods are cleansed to a spit-polish sparkle! Behold! new parks! lower crime! And, of course, if you have change in your pockets, ladies and gents, you may want to play the investment game. Because, before you know it, prices will be going up, up and away. Skeptical? Afraid to embrace the "g-word?" Believe it or not, the case can be made for gentrification. Step right up and find out for yourself.
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