Who has been in the House of Brews and contemplated the decrepit Aztec Theater and wondered “what’s become of the local culture?” It has become something different from what many of us grew up in, but that’s not to say it’s negative. I’d say gentrification has brought new life to this once dormant, if not stagnant town.
I set up a firm of creative planning and development for small-to-medium sized businesses, in a city of third-fourth-and-fifth generation Latinos. I am not speaking condescendingly upon the past, but attempting to illuminate the vision of the city’s leaders.
The view of the City of San Fernando, of twenty-four-thousand inhabitants is a city on the cusp of gentrification. One among many cities experiencing this introduction of creative assets being bred into the more-established local economy. Ideas becoming brick, yet brick becoming malleable. A new brick. A new idea.
Progress, maybe. Aesthetic improvement, surely.
Tags: gentrification, incorporated cities, rezoning, san fernando, urban planning
