date:Jul 22, 2013
ges cities. She wrote her graduate-school dissertation on how gentrification in Brooklyns Williamsburg neighborhood affected small manufacturers. Small businesses struggled to stay put while developers converted factories and warehouses into lucrative lofts and swarms of wealthy new residents drove up prices, she says. She warns that the appeal of revitalized neighborhoods can decimate small businesses, both old and new.
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