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Originally Posted by tjp
This is interesting. I don't spend much time in Pilsen at all, but based on the numbers above, it seems the pace of gentrification is being exaggerated quite a bit.
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True to a certain extent, but then again population numbers really don't always indicate the influence of an area. The Pearl District in Portland, for example, carries a lot of weight for defining Portland's modern reputation and it only has a population of a bit over five thousand people. Of course other neighborhoods in Portland also play a role in its reputation now, but an argument can be made that the Pearl started it all. Sometimes relatively small shifts in numbers actually hide entire sea changes in an area.