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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was in college and the clubs were there, we used to pay people to watch our cars. This used to be real rough. The bougie stuff is a cresting wave than will fall back[/quote]

To some extent, but the stadium brought in some expensive buildings and stores. Unfortunately, it’s still very poor in surrounding areas and some of those people are criminals and rob stores and have shoot outs. Non criminals got soooked and left. [/quote]

Is this OP? So you've lived there for 3-4 years?

What you don't get is that it didn't used to be a "neighborhood" at all. Before the stadium went in, and even for many years after because the subprime financial crisis paused development for years, almost no one lived there. There was the naval facility, which has always been closed to the public, a bunch of warehouses, some clubs, and a  handful of houses. I believe the elementary school down there was shuttered for years too. The DoT buildings went in, and that brought a few places to eat and a Starbucks. Then the built those row houses, but they practically gave them away. When they first went in, you could buy one for 300-400k. It was a rough neighborhood and they offered a lot of incentives to buyers.

And that was pretty much it, for years. You could park on the street for free, anytime, because there was no one there. Even during a baseball game. But after the game you'd go to Barracks Row/Eastern Market because there wasn't anywhere to eat or drink in Navy Yard and it felt sketchy. You could also drive to the Wharf and go to one of like 2 or 3 restaurants there -- the wharf was also not built up at all.

This was less than 15 years ago.[/quote]

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