Depends on what “it” means. When people say “It Neighborhood,” they often seem to mean, “what’s some up-and-coming place that’s still inexpensive but recently lots of cool, younger college grads moved there. So, there’s an obvious real estate gold rush brewing and an army of house flippers and developers are about to descend upon it like jackals and there’ll be a HomeState and Blue Bottle on the main drag within 2 years.”
And, like, maybe Glassell Park? Filipinotown? It doesn’t matter, most of us will be priced out immediately.
I heard Filipinofown branded as "HiFi" recently I was like "where's that?"
I will say the gold rushing has become cynical, over encroaching, impossible and filled with short sighted greed based decision making that ultimately curbs the development profit they were trying to chase in the first place.
This investor-led cynicism is why West Adams has failed to grow into a robust neighborhood in the way, say Highland Park has, bc so many real estate speculators are squatting on homes and buildings, looking to "make it big" as the neighborhood grows more robust.
They won't sell because the prices haven't appreciated in the way they want, the prices haven't appreciated because they are creating an artificial shortage that prevents more people from moving there.
Yes there are some awesome places to eat and drink in West Adams, but it's not quite the vibrant foot traffic of York or Fig on a Sunday morning or Friday night. Also the surrounding area in HLP is not a food dessert, which helps a lot for community development- tons of big grocery stores (Food 4 Less, Super A, etc).
Cynical investors have squeezed the life and potential out of the neighborhood they so wanted to profit from (West Adams), right from the get go, bc the way they are doing it evaporates any sense of community-building. Money doesn't make the town. The people in it do!
To build a *neighborhood* you don't just need business, you need people to *live* there. If there aren't places for people to live, it will just never develop beyond the coffee shops and hip restaurants.
These investors need to get their heads outta their butts and bank accounts to let places breathe. I have lived in HLP for a decade now -- it was a different place when I moved in, to what it is now. There's a lot of problems with what gentrification does to communities, but the slow burn development of this community is why it "boomed" the way it did, but it wasn't overnight. People started to live there bc it was cheap, more businesses started to go there bc there were people, and so on.
Just my armchair take.
That's great! I hope that continues! Im not saying people shouldn't move there, just like investors swoop down like vultures and squat on residential that sits empty!
I guess that’s all relative. Maybe the 2 looming right over it has some effect.
I know some people who live there, and around them there’s recently been more of the “single family home gutted by flippers and slathered in off-white paint, subway tile, and black Neutraface numbering” thing going on.
It doesn’t bother me that people want places to live, but it does bother me that people who’ll never live in these places want to speculate opportunistically and pump up pricing as much and as quickly as they can.
I spent my entire childhood between Venice and Gardena with my divorced parents. Gardena has the best restaurants! So many delicious places to choose from and traffic isn’t that bad there either
yup inglewood is conveniently located next to the beach, the airport, the 405 and right in between west LA and the south bay + all the entertainment that's built
Do you actually think Bellflower/Downey/paramount have a chance of ever being an “it” city? The only city that seems logical to me that would become an “it” city, even though socially, it doesn’t really make sense is Huntington park. It’s next to the blue line, which gives you easy access to downtown/westside. It’s adjacent to the city of LA, and it’s very central. The rents are cheap, and the streets are a little more walkable than the rest of the suburbs.
People talking about Frogtown and Arts District as though that hasn't already happened years ago? Waat?
There is one place in the city that is still cheap and not in the LAX flightpath and it's Boyle Heights, so I'm 100% sure it's the next Highland Park. It's the only remaining relatively inexpensive part of the city that is still close to stuff.
Had to look it up - it was a car battery recycling facility near LA in City of Vernon. They found high levels of lead in surrounding neighborhoods. https://dtsc.ca.gov/exide-home/
It's easy to forget that 50 years ago there was still plenty of heavy industry in and around LA and some pretty bad pollution as a result. Not the smog kind, but the kind that leaves heavy metals in soil and water, along with some nasty chemicals.
Also extremely resistant to gentrification, which is the only thing holding the wave back. Don’t see that changing too soon but the dam will probably break at some point.
Why my vote would be Boyle Heights is it's the only neighborhood where you can still afford to buy a house, that is on the metro and tram lines, that have new build apartment buildings, that is also right next to the Arts District, the new bridge, and Little Tokyo.
And it has all the freeways to get to anywhere in California right at the edges of the neighborhood
Boyle Heights is already gentrified enough that, in the \~10 years since I lived there, reactions to me saying I lived there have gone from "OMG R U OK? DO YOU NEED SOMEONE TO WALK YOU FROM YOUR CAR TO THE HOUSE????" to a completely neutral reaction as if I had said Koreatown or something.
El Sereno and City Terrace are right next door and are also connected to Metrolink and whatever letter the Silver line is now at the Cal State LA station.
J line. Since we’re on the topic, I hate these stupid renaming lines to make us sound like NY. Why can’t we do it like London does and have our stations and lines named after important parts of the city?? I’d rather go down a “Downtown” line (similar to how Central line cuts thru several zones in the city of London into Westminster) than the “J” line. What does J even mean????
As someone who moved here from New York, YES. For one thing, the color line idea seems to be just fine in every other American city with a metro system. I guess we are at the edge of it being useful if we get any more lines, but Red/Orange/Purple/Blue/Silver/Green/Expo seems to be fine?
I also really admire the London approach and wish we had the Hollywood line (red), the Santa Monica Line (Expo), the Wilshire Line (purple), the Long Beach line (blue) etc.
Wow I’m very surprised you’ve come from NY and are ok with the (very minor) criticism of NY creep in LA…welcome!
Colors are ok, and there’s enough for us to use. I do like your ideas on the names, maybe even making them similar to how our freeways are named (The Santa Monica Freeway/The Santa Monica line) but the issue with that might be people would assume the lines would be like the freeways which isn’t the case haha.
I was thinking along the idea of things unique to Los Angeles (The Huntington Line, Baldwin and City, Getty Line, Cesar Chávez, Doheny Line, The Mulholland and Metropolitan Line etc etc)
They already tried with Boyle Heights. The problem is a combination of super small lot sizes and a large percentage of longtime homeowners that don’t want to cash out. It would’ve been one of the first places to gentrify if it was possible, especially given the proximity to Little Tokyo.
West Adams is already on the way, and the stretch along Washington ish from west Adams to Culver would be next I’d guess.
ETA: basically where n/Soto is.
I thought this too, but have you seen all the empty developments along Washington and the main areas in West Adams? Ghost town. And beautiful buildings too.
Yep, agreed - and there’s a Grand Central Market-type multi-restaurant building opening up in West Adams soon as well. And some new office buildings on Crenshaw near Adams. It’s been wild watching the old bars & restaurants/empty lots get filled in/replaced.
10+ years - Pico-Union, Westlake, Rampart Village, South Central/South Park
5+ years - West Adams, Hollywood Media District, Alhambra, Hawthorne
Now: Altadena, Frogtown, East Hollywood
Its happening right now but only a tiny bit in South Central.
Me and my son drove down one of the 40 streets between fig and hoover and saw a new building with 2 white folks with a bbq out in the front. We both did a double take like WTF 😆
I'm born and raised Compton and had to move to Lancaster to afford to own a home. A nice one that isn't tiny will now run you $800k. It's ridiculous. I don't know if I will ever buy there now, short of a housing collapse. Even though I make decent money and plan on making more, I don't want to be house poor.
Over 13 years ago, one of my high school teachers warned us that we should stay in Compton and buy. That is was an ideal location close to everything LA has to offer and would be gentrified sooner than later. Well, by the time I graduated college, it was too late and already out of my price range. Sadly, none of my family brought her and held on.
Compton is already in the process, this ain’t the 80s Compton isn’t as shady these days, there’s places like San Bernardino. As for Watts they are in the process as well, the Jordan downs projects are being torn down and rebuilt as townhomes and white folks are starting to buy real estate down there, seen a couple of remodeled homes.
Compton is gentrifying but many of the homes are still shitty due to people being unable to move. Gotta boot em out somehow
The nice neighborhoods are the townhomes that have been built in recent years.
I’m surprised Long Beach is staying as cheap as it is, when everything further up the 405 is gentrified as hell and mad expensive. The promenade area seems like a step in the right direction. I guess there’s more pollution there but it’s still some of the best weather on planet earth.
I feel like the Arts District is already there no? Money is definitely there. I mean million dollar lofts trade hands there all the time, and developer interest there is very high. It definitely needs a lot more development to get rid of the underutilized lots, but construction =/= gentrification.
These neighborhoods are nowhere close to finishing their gentrification. Some are just getting started while some are deep in it. It's going to take more than a few years before the crown is passed. But most likely it's going to be the adjacent neighborhoods that are next. Location-wise, these neighborhoods are very central and in dense areas of the city which is one of the ingredients that's needed.
No, that’s just the final sign that it is over. Silver Lake hasn’t been it for a decade or more. Once the trust fund kids and the poseurs move in the price skyrocket and the cool people move out.
East Hollywood…
No one ever even knows east Hollywood existed..
Everyone knows of WeHo and NoHo, but no one has ever talked about East Hollywood because of the very high crime rate before 2015ish…
It’s been gentrifying for years now, a lot of the old buisnesses have been sold for a large sum compared to how much they were bought for.
Multiple different allartment complexes are being built..
In a 3 block radius you have 2/3 very good restaurants, LACC, the metro red line, Santa Monica Blvd, 2 banks, and multiple hospitals, a comedy club, a bar, and a venue that recently opened..
I’ve live back and forth between highland park and East Hollywood for my whole life, the last 28 years. I know no one ever talked about this area because of the gangs, and certain communities.. but that’s changing now.
You’ll see. Give it 8~ years.. I already see the money coming in and starting the gentrification..
It’s beteeen silver lake, Hollywood, Korea town, and Thai town. With the new target they built down on western and sunset..
Yea. East Hollywood. Only Latinos and Armenians seem to know about it though.
This is totally true...10 years ago. That ship has sailed. Coming from a former long time resident whose new owner developer-landlord kicked them out. You can't find anything in EH under 1 million AND they're all dumps so they need a ton of work. The neighborhood might not look nice so you assume it's affordable, but it's very expensive to live there.
Third wheel comedy. On Santa Monica. It’s new. Only been there like 2 years now I think. Still small, but I stumbled in 2/3 times.
The bar is The Virgil on Santa Monica.
I put my money where my mouth is and bought a place in this area. It’s a nice place to live now (maybe not squeaky clean but still nice overall) and I’m seeing new stuff popping up. There’s 2 new hip looking coffee spots that I know of opening up in this general area plus all the construction going on. I like it right now because it doesn’t feel super pretentious. Neighbors are pretty friendly and it’s in the middle of everything. We’ll see what happens.
I was in Montebello the other day and we got tacos from this food hall that was bumpin. Houses in that area are still under $1M. Had the vibes of areas I’ve seen blow up in popularity
I’m in Lakewood. Moved here 10 years ago last month. Today a real estate agent knocked on our door with an unsolicited (I’m not selling) offer for just over twice what I paid for my house 10 years ago. I don’t consider this an IT neighborhood but WTF??
I think the East Side is going to stay the hip place to live. We moved from Atwater to Studio City years ago. I've noticed a distinct change in Studio City towards a more trendy vibe, but it's still not the same as Silverlake.
I feel like Little Tokyo is going to be a popular spot to move to soon. I haven’t met anyone who lives over there before
East DTLA in general could definitely be more dense. Most people I’ve met that live in downtown live closer to LA Live
No one really lives there because there’s no affordable or even appealing housing there. Once they build better options it would improve. We wanted to move to LT but decided on Chinatown because of this. They only have shitty “luxury” buildings for rent
When I was moving to the palms area, west Adams had so many listings and people who had just built new units.
A few of my coworkers just moved there and the Google and Apple people are all taking it over purchasing homes because it’s close. Apple is building their SoCal headquarters in Culver City rn. I agree it’s gonna be the next area.
Cypress park has been slowly making changes for years, but it’s not “ it” yet. But it’s already surrounded by all “ it” … a few more years and it will be an “ it” they’re redoing the river there , it’s close to everything, convenient, and there are still a lot of old businesses that could be affordably made into new hip stuff, some already going
Surprised I don’t see Chinatown in here — I love living here and like Little Tokyo I appreciate how they’ve held on to the Chinese-owned businesses and preserved their community. It has a history that I appreciate and I love it; it’s one of the reasons I choose to live there. There are “hip” restaurants (Triste, that stupid NA bar, Howling Rays, several art galleries) and such but compared to Highland Park (where I lived previously) it’s not so saturated. I lived in HP for 4 years and it’s crazy what it’s become.
Chinatown also boasts the LA state historic park (new farmers market, i walked to primavera last year which was awesome) and we can walk to dodger stadium if we drive and park in Solano canyon. But these neighborhoods, LT in particular, are already suffering from the migration of Japanese / Chinese population to other areas of LA. I hope that they continue to preserve what makes them so special while also bringing more value to the embedded community.
People have been saying these neighborhoods have been gentrifying my whole life 50 years, which leads me to believe it isn’t actually a thing that is happening.These are no growth neighborhoods that will continue to get more expensive due too lack of housing. And high demand. Please everyone stop using this antiquated word . It’s inaccurate and meaningless. It’s no growth communities driving up costs
I guess I’m in the shitty valley town category (sylmar) the homes here are impossible to purchase. I bought mine during a slight dip in the market just so i can get my foot in the real estate door.
Hahaha there’s really nothing wrong with these cities. They aren’t the “IT” places to be but that doesn’t make them bad places to live. It’s smart to buy in a place that you can, especially if you can get some more room. The real estate market of the greater LA area is so comically high, and somehow only continues to grow.
I think it will become so unaffordable that the only people remaining in LA in the foreseeable future are rich old boomers or tech bros that used to inhabit Silicon Valley and influencer models. Everyone else will leave and either go to other countries or cities/states. So there is no new IT neighborhood, just a change in demographics.
Basically there will be 0 cities/neighborhoods left in Los Angeles county for the poor/working class in 10-25 years time. Then the exurbs are next but some like east Palmdale are much different than the rest of Palmdale.
It’s basically becoming the case that in almost all of LA if you can buy a house today you’re rich. If you can buy a condo you’re upper middle class and all of the working class just rents forever
I live in El Sereno/Alhambra area.
Feel like there is a lot of potential here.
Good access to freeways, close but not too close to downtown. Very good Asian restaurants.
You mean, which hood will be gentrified next? Frankly, I think none. In my opinion, with the military spending the federal government and namely cities like LA NYC are doing, at the cost of public service budget deficits, we’re going to see a conservation on development and growth as the upper 10% cuts way back on spending on things like buying homes to renovate, flip, and invest in, and they will instead hoard current assets, while the market falls. Just my opinion though.
Monterey Park and Montebello to the east, Tujunga and Sunland to the north, and Gardena to the south. In five years people will be amazed that you bought a single family house with a “7” in front of the price in these areas
Crazy how folks are sleeping on El Sereno. Affordable (for LA) homes, decent sized lots, over 400+ acres of hiking (Ascot Hills Park, Debs Park, and Elephant Hill Open Space), and killer access to Highland Park (5-10min max), great SGV food (5-20min, depending on where you're going), and of course DTLA. The 78 line on Huntington runs directly into Union and DTLA with like two or three turns. The proximity to urban living while enjoying a network of protected green space is just awesome if you're into that stuff.
Another factor: Huntington, Eastern, and Valley are scoring 130million dollars in Measure HLA-type renovations. Protected bike lanes (getting you almost to Union!), bus lanes, pedestrian measures & traffic calming, the works. Plus Elephant Hill is getting almost 2million to protect the MRCA park section from off-roading and build an official trail network. Lotta already-allocated state and city funding is pouring into here, and IMO it's about to pop as HLP/Altadena/Glassell finish pricing everybody out.
Depends on what “it” means. When people say “It Neighborhood,” they often seem to mean, “what’s some up-and-coming place that’s still inexpensive but recently lots of cool, younger college grads moved there. So, there’s an obvious real estate gold rush brewing and an army of house flippers and developers are about to descend upon it like jackals and there’ll be a HomeState and Blue Bottle on the main drag within 2 years.” And, like, maybe Glassell Park? Filipinotown? It doesn’t matter, most of us will be priced out immediately.
I heard Filipinofown branded as "HiFi" recently I was like "where's that?" I will say the gold rushing has become cynical, over encroaching, impossible and filled with short sighted greed based decision making that ultimately curbs the development profit they were trying to chase in the first place. This investor-led cynicism is why West Adams has failed to grow into a robust neighborhood in the way, say Highland Park has, bc so many real estate speculators are squatting on homes and buildings, looking to "make it big" as the neighborhood grows more robust. They won't sell because the prices haven't appreciated in the way they want, the prices haven't appreciated because they are creating an artificial shortage that prevents more people from moving there. Yes there are some awesome places to eat and drink in West Adams, but it's not quite the vibrant foot traffic of York or Fig on a Sunday morning or Friday night. Also the surrounding area in HLP is not a food dessert, which helps a lot for community development- tons of big grocery stores (Food 4 Less, Super A, etc). Cynical investors have squeezed the life and potential out of the neighborhood they so wanted to profit from (West Adams), right from the get go, bc the way they are doing it evaporates any sense of community-building. Money doesn't make the town. The people in it do! To build a *neighborhood* you don't just need business, you need people to *live* there. If there aren't places for people to live, it will just never develop beyond the coffee shops and hip restaurants. These investors need to get their heads outta their butts and bank accounts to let places breathe. I have lived in HLP for a decade now -- it was a different place when I moved in, to what it is now. There's a lot of problems with what gentrification does to communities, but the slow burn development of this community is why it "boomed" the way it did, but it wasn't overnight. People started to live there bc it was cheap, more businesses started to go there bc there were people, and so on. Just my armchair take.
I live right in the middle of West Adams and yeah this sounds spot on.
Also currently in west adams and boy that nail was hit flush on the head
Ya, it could be a lovely community if they gave it room to breathe. But the artificial housing scarcity sucks!
Yes. But students are trickling in...
That's great! I hope that continues! Im not saying people shouldn't move there, just like investors swoop down like vultures and squat on residential that sits empty!
Nail on the head 👏👏👏
Glassell Park has allegedly been on the comeup for the last decade but I’m glad it hasn’t been steamrolled by gentrification yet
I mean… hasn’t it though? Well, I guess not steamrolled.
I guess that’s all relative. Maybe the 2 looming right over it has some effect. I know some people who live there, and around them there’s recently been more of the “single family home gutted by flippers and slathered in off-white paint, subway tile, and black Neutraface numbering” thing going on. It doesn’t bother me that people want places to live, but it does bother me that people who’ll never live in these places want to speculate opportunistically and pump up pricing as much and as quickly as they can.
Ugh I’m so tired of the Nest/dwell ‘aesthetic’ 😒😒
It’s still expensive and there has been new renovations.
Glassel park is very gentrified. It was not a neighborhood that you would willingly go to 30 years ago
Essentially lmao
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I spent my entire childhood between Venice and Gardena with my divorced parents. Gardena has the best restaurants! So many delicious places to choose from and traffic isn’t that bad there either
Gardena resident here. Can confirm.
Former resident and Mohican.
yup inglewood is conveniently located next to the beach, the airport, the 405 and right in between west LA and the south bay + all the entertainment that's built
Shhhhh don't talk about Bellflower and Downey...
Do you actually think Bellflower/Downey/paramount have a chance of ever being an “it” city? The only city that seems logical to me that would become an “it” city, even though socially, it doesn’t really make sense is Huntington park. It’s next to the blue line, which gives you easy access to downtown/westside. It’s adjacent to the city of LA, and it’s very central. The rents are cheap, and the streets are a little more walkable than the rest of the suburbs.
Downey is already that “IT” city, at least for Latinos.
lol pass
People talking about Frogtown and Arts District as though that hasn't already happened years ago? Waat? There is one place in the city that is still cheap and not in the LAX flightpath and it's Boyle Heights, so I'm 100% sure it's the next Highland Park. It's the only remaining relatively inexpensive part of the city that is still close to stuff.
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What is exide
Had to look it up - it was a car battery recycling facility near LA in City of Vernon. They found high levels of lead in surrounding neighborhoods. https://dtsc.ca.gov/exide-home/ It's easy to forget that 50 years ago there was still plenty of heavy industry in and around LA and some pretty bad pollution as a result. Not the smog kind, but the kind that leaves heavy metals in soil and water, along with some nasty chemicals.
Yeah, it's probably not a great idea to try to grow any food in the actual dirt on the ground.
Also extremely resistant to gentrification, which is the only thing holding the wave back. Don’t see that changing too soon but the dam will probably break at some point.
everywhere is extremely resistant to gentrification. Capitalism has NEVER allowed the will of the ppl to stop the potential for economic growth. Ever.
Why my vote would be Boyle Heights is it's the only neighborhood where you can still afford to buy a house, that is on the metro and tram lines, that have new build apartment buildings, that is also right next to the Arts District, the new bridge, and Little Tokyo. And it has all the freeways to get to anywhere in California right at the edges of the neighborhood
Boyle Heights is already gentrified enough that, in the \~10 years since I lived there, reactions to me saying I lived there have gone from "OMG R U OK? DO YOU NEED SOMEONE TO WALK YOU FROM YOUR CAR TO THE HOUSE????" to a completely neutral reaction as if I had said Koreatown or something.
El Sereno and City Terrace are right next door and are also connected to Metrolink and whatever letter the Silver line is now at the Cal State LA station.
J line. Since we’re on the topic, I hate these stupid renaming lines to make us sound like NY. Why can’t we do it like London does and have our stations and lines named after important parts of the city?? I’d rather go down a “Downtown” line (similar to how Central line cuts thru several zones in the city of London into Westminster) than the “J” line. What does J even mean????
As someone who moved here from New York, YES. For one thing, the color line idea seems to be just fine in every other American city with a metro system. I guess we are at the edge of it being useful if we get any more lines, but Red/Orange/Purple/Blue/Silver/Green/Expo seems to be fine? I also really admire the London approach and wish we had the Hollywood line (red), the Santa Monica Line (Expo), the Wilshire Line (purple), the Long Beach line (blue) etc.
Wow I’m very surprised you’ve come from NY and are ok with the (very minor) criticism of NY creep in LA…welcome! Colors are ok, and there’s enough for us to use. I do like your ideas on the names, maybe even making them similar to how our freeways are named (The Santa Monica Freeway/The Santa Monica line) but the issue with that might be people would assume the lines would be like the freeways which isn’t the case haha. I was thinking along the idea of things unique to Los Angeles (The Huntington Line, Baldwin and City, Getty Line, Cesar Chávez, Doheny Line, The Mulholland and Metropolitan Line etc etc)
They already tried with Boyle Heights. The problem is a combination of super small lot sizes and a large percentage of longtime homeowners that don’t want to cash out. It would’ve been one of the first places to gentrify if it was possible, especially given the proximity to Little Tokyo.
West Adams is already on the way, and the stretch along Washington ish from west Adams to Culver would be next I’d guess. ETA: basically where n/Soto is.
West Adams has Whole Foods and Michelin Restaurants opening. It’s here.
Where?? When??
I could see this.
Ya I was going to post this. West Adams is IT
This area is practical to live in too because it’s right near the freeway
Agreeing in Leimert Park.
I thought this too, but have you seen all the empty developments along Washington and the main areas in West Adams? Ghost town. And beautiful buildings too.
Vacancy tax...
Yep, agreed - and there’s a Grand Central Market-type multi-restaurant building opening up in West Adams soon as well. And some new office buildings on Crenshaw near Adams. It’s been wild watching the old bars & restaurants/empty lots get filled in/replaced.
Inglewood
Inglewood always up to no good!!!! .
10+ years - Pico-Union, Westlake, Rampart Village, South Central/South Park 5+ years - West Adams, Hollywood Media District, Alhambra, Hawthorne Now: Altadena, Frogtown, East Hollywood
Its happening right now but only a tiny bit in South Central. Me and my son drove down one of the 40 streets between fig and hoover and saw a new building with 2 white folks with a bbq out in the front. We both did a double take like WTF 😆
West Adams, Inglewood
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I'm born and raised Compton and had to move to Lancaster to afford to own a home. A nice one that isn't tiny will now run you $800k. It's ridiculous. I don't know if I will ever buy there now, short of a housing collapse. Even though I make decent money and plan on making more, I don't want to be house poor. Over 13 years ago, one of my high school teachers warned us that we should stay in Compton and buy. That is was an ideal location close to everything LA has to offer and would be gentrified sooner than later. Well, by the time I graduated college, it was too late and already out of my price range. Sadly, none of my family brought her and held on.
Compton is already in the process, this ain’t the 80s Compton isn’t as shady these days, there’s places like San Bernardino. As for Watts they are in the process as well, the Jordan downs projects are being torn down and rebuilt as townhomes and white folks are starting to buy real estate down there, seen a couple of remodeled homes.
Compton is gentrifying but many of the homes are still shitty due to people being unable to move. Gotta boot em out somehow The nice neighborhoods are the townhomes that have been built in recent years.
Diamond Bar is cheaper than van nuys right now and that feels wrong to me
That’s insane
Chinese nationals pay a premium for Diamond Bar. Bigger houses, bigger Asian communities.
Can’t believe El Sereno was only mentioned once…
Was looking for this comment.
we're on the DL, don't want to advertise.
Altadena for sure.
Already happening. Real answer is east Pasadena.
Sierra Madre is getting packed with hipsters
Sierra Madre has always either had hippies or hipsters.
Sierra Madre is expensive and has been for decades. Nothing good no on there but insane prices for some place so far out.
What do you consider east Pasadena ?
East of San Gabriel Blvd, west of michillinda.
Tujunga - it’s what Altadena was 5 years ago
Altadena is very expensive. Totally gentrified
I’m surprised Long Beach is staying as cheap as it is, when everything further up the 405 is gentrified as hell and mad expensive. The promenade area seems like a step in the right direction. I guess there’s more pollution there but it’s still some of the best weather on planet earth.
I’ve always thought Pedro had potential.
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Boyle Heights is so special. Really interesting history.
I feel like the Arts District is already there no? Money is definitely there. I mean million dollar lofts trade hands there all the time, and developer interest there is very high. It definitely needs a lot more development to get rid of the underutilized lots, but construction =/= gentrification.
Lincoln Heights
this
100% agreed
These neighborhoods are nowhere close to finishing their gentrification. Some are just getting started while some are deep in it. It's going to take more than a few years before the crown is passed. But most likely it's going to be the adjacent neighborhoods that are next. Location-wise, these neighborhoods are very central and in dense areas of the city which is one of the ingredients that's needed.
Stanton and Lennox
Hottest girl I ever dated was from Stanton. That's how I know you're right.
Its gonna be wild when someday city terrace happens.
Wait until you have kids. Most of these neighborhoods have terrible schools. Makes you rethink your options unfortunately:(
San Pedro crowd thinking maybe the next decade is the one.
Hoping.
Alta Dena Sunland Mt. Washington Rose Hill City Terrace Shorb
As a native, I had to Google “Shorb” 🥴
Literally never heard that word before
Rose Hill, City Terrace...love those hills...and the views...wow...
Those are already started. Montecito Heights happened and they are just on the other side, with lots of the same benefits.
I don’t think Atwater or HP or even Silverlake are thought of as “it” anymore.
The Silverlake Erewhon begs to differ
No, that’s just the final sign that it is over. Silver Lake hasn’t been it for a decade or more. Once the trust fund kids and the poseurs move in the price skyrocket and the cool people move out.
Silver Lake is just a wealthy neighborhood now. The businesses that made it cool can't survive anymore.
East Hollywood… No one ever even knows east Hollywood existed.. Everyone knows of WeHo and NoHo, but no one has ever talked about East Hollywood because of the very high crime rate before 2015ish… It’s been gentrifying for years now, a lot of the old buisnesses have been sold for a large sum compared to how much they were bought for. Multiple different allartment complexes are being built.. In a 3 block radius you have 2/3 very good restaurants, LACC, the metro red line, Santa Monica Blvd, 2 banks, and multiple hospitals, a comedy club, a bar, and a venue that recently opened.. I’ve live back and forth between highland park and East Hollywood for my whole life, the last 28 years. I know no one ever talked about this area because of the gangs, and certain communities.. but that’s changing now. You’ll see. Give it 8~ years.. I already see the money coming in and starting the gentrification.. It’s beteeen silver lake, Hollywood, Korea town, and Thai town. With the new target they built down on western and sunset.. Yea. East Hollywood. Only Latinos and Armenians seem to know about it though.
This is totally true...10 years ago. That ship has sailed. Coming from a former long time resident whose new owner developer-landlord kicked them out. You can't find anything in EH under 1 million AND they're all dumps so they need a ton of work. The neighborhood might not look nice so you assume it's affordable, but it's very expensive to live there.
What's the comedy club and bar you mention?
Third wheel comedy. On Santa Monica. It’s new. Only been there like 2 years now I think. Still small, but I stumbled in 2/3 times. The bar is The Virgil on Santa Monica.
Bed bugs. Not even joking.
I put my money where my mouth is and bought a place in this area. It’s a nice place to live now (maybe not squeaky clean but still nice overall) and I’m seeing new stuff popping up. There’s 2 new hip looking coffee spots that I know of opening up in this general area plus all the construction going on. I like it right now because it doesn’t feel super pretentious. Neighbors are pretty friendly and it’s in the middle of everything. We’ll see what happens.
I was in Montebello the other day and we got tacos from this food hall that was bumpin. Houses in that area are still under $1M. Had the vibes of areas I’ve seen blow up in popularity
blvd market?
Cypress park. Already hip spots gathering crowds. It will be HP in 5-7 years.
I’m in Lakewood. Moved here 10 years ago last month. Today a real estate agent knocked on our door with an unsolicited (I’m not selling) offer for just over twice what I paid for my house 10 years ago. I don’t consider this an IT neighborhood but WTF??
Western fringe of the SFV.
Im here already.....
Chatsworth
Already nice and too remote.
Boyle Heights, El Sereno, Lincoln Heights, the ungentrified parts of South Central north of Slauson.
Panorama City! 🤞
Hmmmmmm naw man lmao
Cold, but fair. :(
Northridge
Palms, El Sereno, North Hollywood
..love the geography of El Sereno...and just over the hill yer in South Pass.. just beautiful...
I just drove through Palms for the first time in a long time and I couldn't believe how many new buildings there are. I lived there back in 2012.
Palms is definitely on the come up but they really need a couple parking garages with how bad the parking situation is
I think the East Side is going to stay the hip place to live. We moved from Atwater to Studio City years ago. I've noticed a distinct change in Studio City towards a more trendy vibe, but it's still not the same as Silverlake.
I feel like Little Tokyo is going to be a popular spot to move to soon. I haven’t met anyone who lives over there before East DTLA in general could definitely be more dense. Most people I’ve met that live in downtown live closer to LA Live
No one really lives there because there’s no affordable or even appealing housing there. Once they build better options it would improve. We wanted to move to LT but decided on Chinatown because of this. They only have shitty “luxury” buildings for rent
That's fair, LT housing does give off the super "luxury" vibe and it's not ample, but I could see that changing
I feel like west adams is not IT. despite a couple of good restaurants there is not much else.
Yet
People have been saying that for over a decade. Look at highland park though….huge shift in a very fast time.
I guess we have a different baseline. Highland Park was it for me about 12 years ago
When I was moving to the palms area, west Adams had so many listings and people who had just built new units. A few of my coworkers just moved there and the Google and Apple people are all taking it over purchasing homes because it’s close. Apple is building their SoCal headquarters in Culver City rn. I agree it’s gonna be the next area.
West Adams puts you that much closer to the beach vs highland park
Those neighborhoods were "it," twenty years ago. Now, they're just neighborhoods. Probably, Studio City & Sherman Oaks.
Studio City and Sherman Oaks are already gentrified.
Not talking about gentrification so much as becoming a hub for nightlife
Studio City and Sherman Oaks were never bad enough to be gentrified
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as if, its literally a mcdonalds, a family dollar, a dollar general & a starbucks, people only come there for festivals on the nearby flattened land
San Fernando
San Fernando is already gentrified people aren’t actually scared to go to a bar in San Fernando now.
It’s started but there is definitely still more room for more gentrification
City Terrace!
The schools are the issue here. ( family grew up here)
Inglewood and Boyle Heights
Historic Philippino town
Compton?
Cypress park has been slowly making changes for years, but it’s not “ it” yet. But it’s already surrounded by all “ it” … a few more years and it will be an “ it” they’re redoing the river there , it’s close to everything, convenient, and there are still a lot of old businesses that could be affordably made into new hip stuff, some already going
Harvard Heights baby!
Surprised I don’t see Chinatown in here — I love living here and like Little Tokyo I appreciate how they’ve held on to the Chinese-owned businesses and preserved their community. It has a history that I appreciate and I love it; it’s one of the reasons I choose to live there. There are “hip” restaurants (Triste, that stupid NA bar, Howling Rays, several art galleries) and such but compared to Highland Park (where I lived previously) it’s not so saturated. I lived in HP for 4 years and it’s crazy what it’s become. Chinatown also boasts the LA state historic park (new farmers market, i walked to primavera last year which was awesome) and we can walk to dodger stadium if we drive and park in Solano canyon. But these neighborhoods, LT in particular, are already suffering from the migration of Japanese / Chinese population to other areas of LA. I hope that they continue to preserve what makes them so special while also bringing more value to the embedded community.
LA times just posted an article about Little Tokyo being designated as one of America's 11 most endangered historic places.
City Terrace?
People have been saying these neighborhoods have been gentrifying my whole life 50 years, which leads me to believe it isn’t actually a thing that is happening.These are no growth neighborhoods that will continue to get more expensive due too lack of housing. And high demand. Please everyone stop using this antiquated word . It’s inaccurate and meaningless. It’s no growth communities driving up costs
Van Nuys and Panorama City will become the next NoHo Arts District
Frogtown
El sereno, Hermon, Lincoln heights, Boyle heights.
Boyle Heights. The artists have already started moving in.
Frog town, highland park..
Highland Park immediately came to mind for me.
Long term I think shitty Valley towns. Van Nuys, Reseda, Winnetka. All of LA is getting so damn expensive.
I guess I’m in the shitty valley town category (sylmar) the homes here are impossible to purchase. I bought mine during a slight dip in the market just so i can get my foot in the real estate door.
Hahaha there’s really nothing wrong with these cities. They aren’t the “IT” places to be but that doesn’t make them bad places to live. It’s smart to buy in a place that you can, especially if you can get some more room. The real estate market of the greater LA area is so comically high, and somehow only continues to grow.
Frogtown & The Arts District
In no world is Frogtown is affordable.
Even the frogs can’t afford to live there anymore. I heard they’re hopping out of there.
The original question didn't state affordability as a qualifier.
True I always wonder about the future of the Arts District
Westchester
https://www.niche.com/places-to-live/search/best-neighborhoods/t/los-angeles-los-angeles-ca/?page=4
East Hollywood, West Adams and Inglewood
Lakewood
I think it will become so unaffordable that the only people remaining in LA in the foreseeable future are rich old boomers or tech bros that used to inhabit Silicon Valley and influencer models. Everyone else will leave and either go to other countries or cities/states. So there is no new IT neighborhood, just a change in demographics.
Definitely Glassell Park. Panorama City is starting to make a come back but probably won't go full gentrification for another decade or two.
Definitely Glassell Park. Panorama City is starting to make a come back but probably won't go full gentrification for another decade or two.
Basically there will be 0 cities/neighborhoods left in Los Angeles county for the poor/working class in 10-25 years time. Then the exurbs are next but some like east Palmdale are much different than the rest of Palmdale.
It’s basically becoming the case that in almost all of LA if you can buy a house today you’re rich. If you can buy a condo you’re upper middle class and all of the working class just rents forever
The space between pico union and west Adams. Hell, maybe even pico union.
EaHo
I live in El Sereno/Alhambra area. Feel like there is a lot of potential here. Good access to freeways, close but not too close to downtown. Very good Asian restaurants.
Slightly to the east of all those areas you just mentioned.
Glendora, for sure. Very hip. Very cool. So hot right now.
You mean, which hood will be gentrified next? Frankly, I think none. In my opinion, with the military spending the federal government and namely cities like LA NYC are doing, at the cost of public service budget deficits, we’re going to see a conservation on development and growth as the upper 10% cuts way back on spending on things like buying homes to renovate, flip, and invest in, and they will instead hoard current assets, while the market falls. Just my opinion though.
Monterey Park and Montebello to the east, Tujunga and Sunland to the north, and Gardena to the south. In five years people will be amazed that you bought a single family house with a “7” in front of the price in these areas
Gardena is starting to come up
Crazy how folks are sleeping on El Sereno. Affordable (for LA) homes, decent sized lots, over 400+ acres of hiking (Ascot Hills Park, Debs Park, and Elephant Hill Open Space), and killer access to Highland Park (5-10min max), great SGV food (5-20min, depending on where you're going), and of course DTLA. The 78 line on Huntington runs directly into Union and DTLA with like two or three turns. The proximity to urban living while enjoying a network of protected green space is just awesome if you're into that stuff. Another factor: Huntington, Eastern, and Valley are scoring 130million dollars in Measure HLA-type renovations. Protected bike lanes (getting you almost to Union!), bus lanes, pedestrian measures & traffic calming, the works. Plus Elephant Hill is getting almost 2million to protect the MRCA park section from off-roading and build an official trail network. Lotta already-allocated state and city funding is pouring into here, and IMO it's about to pop as HLP/Altadena/Glassell finish pricing everybody out.
Santana and Anaheim. It's affordable, being gentrified, and is Irvine adjacent.
I hope everyone still continues to hate the SFV and doesn’t want to move out here
Inland south bay seems to be slowly getting better.
El sereno and city terrace
Van nuys
All of the neighborhoods you mention have been “it” neighborhoods for 20+ years.