the.com/redevelopment
Capitalism's way of saying this neighborhood got too interesting to stay affordable.
means The process of demolishing, renovating, or repurposing an area's existing buildings and infrastructure to build something new in their place.
from Simply 're-' (again) plus 'development,' which traces back through French to the Old French 'desveloper' — to unwrap or unfurl, from 'voloper,' to wrap up, itself possibly from a Celtic root. So development originally meant unwrapping something hidden, revealing what's inside — and redevelopment, fittingly, means unwrapping it all over again, tearing off the old packaging to wrap it in something pricier.
- usual order
- artists arrive first, eviction notices arrive second
- marketing trick
- renamed luxury condos borrow the old factory's name
- eminent domain
- government can seize land and call it progress
- parking lots
- often the final form before anything gets built