I drive past that place on MLK often as I go to the place where I volunteer. I had noticed the fencing around the car wash. It’s within a couple of blocks of some rows of businesses and a classic old theater that they’re trying to renovate. Grand old houses are on the other side of the street, kept well but put to other uses, plus a small mosque. Most have big signs that read Voting is Power.
Right after that, I drive down a nearby street where bums and vagrants spend their days walking down one street from a place that serves them breakfast to a place that gives out food for lunch. Those are some of the most wasted lives I can imagine.
New lofts and fancy townhouses are being built in that latter area, and the new people are called urban pioneers. Wow, are they brave.
Is that “gentrification” working?