Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Has Price Hill's Renaissance Begun?

Our local paper of record reports that the Price Hill Civic Club is crowing.

This engine of neighborhood redevelopment yesterday announced that the vacant lot left after the demolition of a problematic apartment building will soon be the site of a pizza parlor, a bank, and maybe one other business.

Meanwhile, City Manager Milton Dohoney has announced that the demolition of derelict properties in East Price Hill will be a priority in the city's lean 2007 budget.

Price Hill is not going to turn into Mount Adams anytime soon. It remains filled with substandard housing stubbornly in the hands of people who enjoy the profit of renting decaying properties to people without alternatives. Hence, it will have a concentration of folks with social problems for awhile.

But for those who think that everything moves inexorably in a single direction, in this case downward, these developments suggest that nothing is as simple as it seems.

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