Its small downtown is undergoing a revitalization project and is now home to a number of trendy restaurants and shops.
In cities undergoing urban revitalization, progress can often be a costly benefit, particularly for residents living right in the midst of the changes.
It has undergone substantial revitalization in recent years, though, and is now known for its old-growth trees and gardens; modest, historic homes; and proximity both to downtown (a mile south) and green spaces.
The past few decades have seen the downtown undergo major revitalization efforts; since 1999, over C$1.2 billion has been invested.
Only blocks away from Duke University, the Durham Bulls Athletic Stadium, and the American Tobacco Campus, Piedmont is tucked into the brick shell of a former Nash Motors dealership in a section of Durham that has undergone extraordinary revitalization.
This diversity accounts for the vibrant social and cultural character of East Harlem neighborhoods, several of which have undergone substantial revitalization in recent years.
In arid regions with abrupt relief such as Southern Peru, agricultural terracing is undergoing a resurgence, as has seen revitalization of once abandoned terrace and hydraulic systems.
But this rugged city in central Alberta is undergoing an energetic revitalization brought on by an oil boom, and its population, according to the Calgary Civic Census, has increased nearly 30percentt in the last decade, to almost 992,000.
It's just past Corktown, a blighted area undergoing a painstaking revitalization, chiefly organized around a few bars and Slows Bar B Q, a restaurant so popular that it draws lines of locals and suburbanites nightly.
