October 26, 2007
Categories: Gentrification, Notting Hill Set, Yuppies . . Author: bashtherich . Comments: Leave a Comment
Fashionable Manchester-based property developers Urban Splash have recently pitched up in Bristol where they’re trying to bring their marketing-heavy gentrification plans for loft living yuppies to Hartcliffe, a working class area to south of the city.
Their first project is the conversion of a deserted 1970s Imperial Tobacco factory on the fringes of the city into [...]
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