Gentrification started in this area when the City bought Dix property. Investors started buying land along lake wheeler (Fuller Heights) to Wilmington Street. Look at Kirby Street since the City controlled Dix. We now have Overture Centennial (Pullen & Bilyeu) since City built Pullen Road to Bilyeu St. That was a cool neighborhood. Will people be impacted, yes. There use to be a lot of low cost apartments near downtown and they are gone. Did you cause it? It is happening to anything within the belt line. Downtown South will accelerate the built out of everything between 40 and MLK. There will not be a gap in between. There are positives and negatives. My coworker had a mechanic that owned his shop on Saunders street who sold the land this year and retired. He has been there over 30 years. Renaissance Park started over 15 years ago. Did they start this? Downtown South Didn’t start this, but they are easy to blame…