gentrification

But neighborhood watchers see the changes as they unfold slowly—a new paint job here, anexpansion there, increased housing sales prices near Beacon Place, a new full-service grocery storebuilt in Ohio City, increased community interest and participation in the local parent-teacherassociation. Ron Register, former director of the Cleveland Community Building Initiative, says thatlongstanding residents in these communities “see they are losing something [in the neighborhood’scharacter], but the change in flavor is very slow. Neighborhoods change anyway and blame is notan issue.” Perhaps the gentrification in Cleveland is really just the gradual neighborhood changeand improvement that so many in Cleveland have desired for so long.64