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Old Posted Mar 8, 2023, 2:59 AM
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Whats your favorite edge city or urban neighborhood?

What's are some of your favorite urban neighborhoods or edge cities. Someplace you've been or would like to visit. Don't overthink it.

Places I'd like to visit:

Cherry Creek, Denver
Arlington, VA
Mainline, Philadelphia
Santa Monica
Fishtown, Philadelphia
Clayton, MO
Deep Elum, Dallas
pretty much all of metro Los Angeles

Places I've been to and love:

Portland Pearl District
Seattle Capital Hill
Brooklyn
Royal Oak, Michigan
Decatur, GA
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Old Posted Mar 8, 2023, 4:11 AM
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Always at the top of my list is West University and surrounding neighborhoods (Houston). I haven't found another urban neighborhood like it in the country.
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My favorite urban neighborhood, BY FAR, is the one I am blessed to call home.



Lincoln Square, Chicago


Source: https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/01...are-neighbors/





2020 population: 40,494 (+2.5%)

Area: 2.0 sq. miles

Density: 20,247 ppsm

Macro-demos:
- white: 62.6%
- latino: 17.5%
- asian: 11.2%
- black: 4.0%
- other: 4.9%

Origin:
- native-born: 77.4%
- foreign-born: 22.6%

Age Cohorts:
- <20: 17.9%
- 20 to 34: 31.6%
- 35 to 49: 24.9%
- 50 to 64: 16.4%
- 65+: 9.3%

Median Household Income: $81,149

ZHVI: $402,640

Housing:
- renter-occupied: 60.6%
- owner-occupied: 39.4%

Housing Unit Typology:
- detached SFH: 15.6%
- attached SFH: 1.9%
- 2 - 9 units: 55.8% ("missing middle" housing FTW!)
- 10 - 19 units: 11.0%
- 20+ units: 15.7%

Automobiles Per Household:
- 0: 20.3%
- 1: 52.7%
- 2: 23.2%
- 3+: 3.7%
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Old Posted Mar 8, 2023, 7:09 PM
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I don't understand the question. OP, are you looking for favorite urban neighborhoods AND/OR edge cities? Or favorite edge cities that are urban? The list you gave of your favorites is kinda all over the place. I wouldn't categorize Brooklyn as either an urban neighborhood or an edge city, for example.
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Old Posted Mar 8, 2023, 10:37 PM
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I guess I'm thinking anything urban but CBD adjacent. Yeah urban NYC boroughs are for practical terms just part of NYC.
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What's are some of your favorite urban neighborhoods or edge cities. Someplace you've been or would like to visit. Don't overthink it.

Places I'd like to visit:

Cherry Creek, Denver
Arlington, VA
Mainline, Philadelphia
Santa Monica
Fishtown, Philadelphia
Clayton, MO
Deep Elum, Dallas
pretty much all of metro Los Angeles

Places I've been to and love:

Portland Pearl District
Seattle Capital Hill
Brooklyn
Royal Oak, Michigan
Decatur, GA

You have to put San Diego on your near term bucket list.
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My favorite edge city would be Pasadena, CA. It has everything, is beautiful, and close to all that LA has to offer.
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Old Posted Mar 9, 2023, 2:11 AM
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You have to put San Diego on your near term bucket list.
Yeah I would definitely like to explore San Diego more. My girlfriend's family all came from L.A. but she is relative adverse so we don't really spend much time in southern California. She's avoiding them like the Sackville Bagginses.
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Lowell MA
Somerville/Cambridge squares along the red line (and mostly Mass Ave) of Davis Sq, Porter Sq, Harvard Sq, and Central Sq, along with everything in between. It's probably my favorite stretch of local neighborhoods outside Boston proper.
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Old Posted Mar 9, 2023, 10:57 PM
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Palo Alto
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Palo Alto
Yeah I was going to say either Palo Alto or Berkeley. Honorable mention to San Mateo, Redwood City, and San Rafael.

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Frederick MD
Fredericksburg VA
Sarasota FL
Sarasota is nice. I'd just call that its own city. Its a little far from Tampa to be considered edgey. Its got a nice compact, downtown tho. My parents have a house down there but its kind of in the white ppl hood! Back in the day their subdivision had alot of the Ringling folks who would winter there. The ppl across the street had a full size trapeze set up.
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My favorite edge city would be Pasadena, CA. It has everything, is beautiful, and close to all that LA has to offer.
was going to say. most of my travel since I’ve had kids (which also has overlapped the pandemic) has been on the west coast and Pasadena is up there as one of the biggest surprises/pleasures to discover in person…among other LA area nodes
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East Portland
Midtown Sacramento
Walnut Creek and Alameda (Bay Area)
Twin Peaks (SF)
Pasadena or Santa Monica (LA)
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Philadelphia and the surrounding area
-Fishtown
-East Passyunk & Passyunk Square
-Spruce Hill
-Chestnut Hill
-Ardmore, PA
-Media, PA
-Phoenixville, PA
-Collingswood, NJ
-Haddonfield, NJ
-Wilmington, DE

Boston area
-Cambridge
-Seaport District
-South End
-Brookline

NYC
-Williamsburg
-Park Slope
-Brooklyn Heights
-Hoboken, NJ

DC
-Dupont Circle
-Logan Circle
-Georgetown
-Navy Yard
-Alexandria, VA
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Yeah I was going to say either Palo Alto or Berkeley. Honorable mention to San Mateo, Redwood City, and San Rafael.
Berkeley would be my other choice as well. I drive through Redwood City and San Mateo all the time without a second thought...now I'm going to have to explore them now that you mentioned them.
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Berkeley would be my other choice as well. I drive through Redwood City and San Mateo all the time without a second thought...now I'm going to have to explore them now that you mentioned them.
Redwood City’s downtown is on the smaller side, more town like but still pretty nice. San Mateo’s is like a slightly smaller and lower key version of Palo Alto’s.
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Sugar House, Yalecrest, and The Avenues. (SLC)
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