Whittier Neighborhood

This Fall Councilwoman Wedgeworth, myself and other community leaders representing the private and public sector will convene a community discussion on Gentrification.

What are your thoughts on this issue?

Hi everyone -Here are some links

Hi everyone -
I thought I would take Darrell's advice and do a little research into the subject of gentrification. I wanted to share links to a few articles I found online in case anyone else needed a little more education on the subject before we began.
I have lived in Whittier/Five Points since 1993. I guess you could call me one of those bohemian artist types. I guess you could say that we were among the first wave of the 'new' into the neighborhood. How did we end up here?
Tired of rent hikes of 20-30% each year that we lived in Boulder, we decided we should own some property. I guess you could say we were gentrified right out of Boulder. and I love old buildings and

Hi everyone -Here are some links

Hi everyone -
I thought I would take Darrell's advice and do a little research into the subject of gentrification. I wanted to share links to a few articles I found online in case anyone else needed a little more education on the subject before we began.
I have lived in Whittier/Five Points since 1993. I guess you could call me one of those bohemian artist types. I guess you could say that we were among the first wave of the 'new' into the neighborhood. How did we end up here?
Tired of rent hikes of 20-30% each year that we lived in Boulder, we decided we should own some property. I guess you could say we were gentrified right out of Boulder. and I love old buildings and

Hi everyone- links & my story

Hi everyone -
I thought I would take Darrell's advice and do a little research into the subject of gentrification. I wanted to share links to a few articles I found online in case anyone else needed a little more education on the subject before we began an earnest discussion.

An article about the recent riots in Cincinatti:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/may2001/cin1-m24_prn.shtml
An article about gentrification:
http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featlydersen_7.htm
An article on 'What is Gentrification'
http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/gentry.htm

Here is my story. I have lived in Whittier/Five Points since 1993. I guess you could call me one of those bohemian artist types. I guess you could also say that we were among the first wave of the 'new' into this neighborhood. How did we end up here?
Tired of rent hikes of 20-30% each year that we lived in Boulder, we decided we should own some property. I guess you could say we were gentrified right out of Boulder, because we could not really afford to live there anymore. East and West coast kids coming to the university thought the rents there were normal and so the locals were moved out of town. We looked all over central Denver for property. We bought our first house here because we could afford a lot more space in this neighborhood for the money. We bought our second house here because we loved this location and the 110 yr. old house we now call home. The people who sold us this house were very anxious to get rid of it as it was literally in shambles. I have spent five years of labor and nearly every spare dollar trying to bring this house back to a glimmer of its orignal beauty.
I am a fifth generation Colorado native. I was born in Denver and I went to the same high school as my great grandmother, my grandmother, my parents and my siblings. I have roots here in Colorado much, much deeper than most people. So I do get very offended when people tell me this is not where I belong - this is not my neighborhood, which happened as recently as Friday night on the train. Our family farm was sold to developers more than a decade ago, and if I had the choice, I WOULD live there, it was amazing and beautiful. It is now 50 luxury 'ranchettes' of which I can not afford one - and a country club. I have also been displaced by Colorado's rapid growth, which goes way beyond our neighborhood boundaries. I can say I see this debate from both sides and the middle. Now, there is no where else I belong any more than where I have called home for the last eight years. So please forgive me if I dig my heels in here, because I too am a refugee of growth...