Sentences with phrase «gentrifying long»

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But it doesn't take a new homeowner long to discover just how large that premium can be in money and time: the constant outlays on maintenance and repairs (at least 1 % of the purchase price per year, experts estimate, and as much as 4 %), the chores and DIY projects that eat up weekends, the pressure to keep up with the ever - gentrifying Joneses.

In gentrifying cities, however, that» s no longer so.

Brandi Kellett, 38, was making dinner for her family at her home in a gentrifying neighborhood of Nashville known as 12South when she realized that her 12 - year - old son, now a student at Valor Collegiate Academies, was finally getting the kind of education she had long dreamed about.

(Read original article here) Brandi Kellett, 38, was making dinner for her family at her home in a gentrifying neighborhood of Nashville known as 12South when she realized that her 12 - year - old son, now a student at Valor Collegiate Academies, was finally getting the kind of education she had long dreamed about.

The change was controversial: Some PS 307 parents worried that a community institution that has long nurtured black and Latino families would be «taken over» by outsiders from the gentrifying neighborhood of DUMBO, while some DUMBO families worried that the school's low test scores mean their children might not be challenged.

Located in Vinegar Hill, a gentrifying neighborhood between the Brooklyn Navy Yard and DUMBO, PS 307 has long served children who live in the Farragut public housing development across the street.

But in some gentrifying DC neighborhoods, middle - class parents working to improve their neighborhood schools have long criticized a system that makes it relatively easy for parents to send their kids elsewhere.

Now, the gentrifying city's rising property values and mushrooming taxes are threatening to push out long - time residents altogether, according to an eye - opening article by John MacCormack published last month in the San Antonio Express - News.

Personally, my most recent investment is in Jersey City Heights, which has the right balance for my taste, which is long term B&H value in a gentrifying area.

One of TD Bank's largest loans this year, for $ 100 million, was issued in April for 44 - 41 Purves Street in the artsy, gentrifying Queens, N.Y. neighborhood of Long Island City.