Blog Tag - gentrification
If you’re heartsick about the closure of your favorite Hutong hole in the wall, the sign for Fish Fusion restaurant will quickly catch your eye....
[UPDATE]: This pop-up has since shut down.
As if it weren’t enough for Dirty Bar Street to be beautified, with nearly every sleazy bar and...
Though the wall had gone up to cease their rowdiness, Rain and Xiaoshuai refused to be silenced. Yes, the renovations of Fangjia Hutong have long...
And the hits just keep coming.
Yet another hutong favorite has fallen on hard times, thanks to the relentless bricking-up of street-level businesses...
Even though their doors have been blocked by bricks, and bars have been fixed to their windows, many streetside Beijing businesses have remained...
Brick piles have been spotted yet again in a popular Beijing alley, leaving owners of its street level businesses to sweat. This time it's Sanlitun...
Speculation is running rampant after it became known earlier this week that a wall will be erected on the Sanlitun North strip where Cheers, Turkish...
The Great Nanluogu Xiang Facelift is over and the result is a resounding "meh."
Those harboring secret fantasies of having the alley revert back to...
Visitors were turned away by construction workers at the south entrance of Nanluogu Xiang on the afternoon of November 1, as road work and repairs of...
Several well-placed sources on popular shopping street Nanluogu Xiang indicate the alley as we know it will be undergoing a four-month reconstruction...
Beijing apartment dwellers beware: a crackdown on subletting is underway, and we've heard of at least three people that have been evicted over the...
Grab your Christmas bargains quick folks as Yashow is closing for renovations by the end of the year, and who knows what sort of stores will return....
What the hell is going on at Gulou? More than three months after tearing up the plaza between the Drum and Bell Towers to repave it, the site remains...
Despite dramatic images being circulated on social media this afternoon, the city is not tearing down the hallowed square between the Drum and Bell...