"It looks idyllic but there's now a sanitation plant down the road, a prison over the street, and a motorway just a bit further along," said Mr. Chauvistré, whose home is now sandwiched between a main road full of warehouse-type stores on one side and farms and country lanes on the other.
Formerly full of warehouses and prostitutes, and abutting the old Cabrini-Green, River North had become the home to Groupon, Google's Chicago operations and hundreds of other digital start-ups — 7,500 tech-industry jobs in total.
Visible all around is South Shoreditch, which was heavily bombed in World War II, and is now full of warehouses transformed into offices, apartments, art studios and, occasionally, industrial uses like storage.
There are a number of other chain properties in the Inner Harbor area, including the following (prices do not include breakfast): Inner Harbor Courtyard by Marriott, 1000 Aliceanna Street, (443) 923-4000, fax (443) 923-9970, on the Web at www.courtyard.com, is a 205-room hotel in the up-and-coming Inner Harbor East in a neighborhood full of warehouses and adjacent to Little Italy.
Sandwiched between the beach and Highway 101, the Funk Zone is full of warehouses, manufacturing plants and industrial operations.
These changes are most obvious on Skid Row, an industrial district full of warehouses and thousands of poor people.
The lower area used to be full of warehouses and lead works, but since the 1980s it's bloomed into an enclave of independent pubs and venues.
Sam Walker and Gavin Royce met 10 years ago at a loft party back when Brooklyn was still full of warehouses and not fancy condos.
Stop to inhale French pastry at Bonaparte Breads (903 South Ann Street; 410-342-4000), befone heading on toward Canton, the next waterfront neighborhood, full of restored warehouses turned into shops and condos.
— an empty neighborhood full of abandoned warehouses — when he first noticed the vehicle tailing him.
