North Park has been selected as one of the top up-and-coming neighborhoods in the U.S. by TravelMag.com.
The community was cited for its “eclectic mix of restaurants, coffee houses, boutiques and bars,” with a number of local small businesses and venues singled out for attention.
They include the restaurants Mabel’s Gone Fishing, the Smoking Goat, and City Tacos, along with Verbatim Books and the Observatory North Park. The travel website also noted “the brewery-studded intersection of University Avenue and 30th Street.”
The publication picked 16 neighborhoods from 16 cities – out of 25 cities considered overall – based on a wide set of criteria, including the number of fashionable cocktail bars, coffee houses, eateries and boutiques, as well LGBTQ-friendly and vegan spots.
Also taken into account was the amount of development in each neighborhood, both in housing and general infrastructure, which have helped lead to a shift in demographics towards young professionals.
Regionally, the other 15 neighborhoods are:
West Coast – Frogtown in Los Angeles; Outer Sunset in San Francisco; Buckman in Portland, Ore.; Greenwood in Seattle.
Midwest – Corktown in Detroit and Pilsen in Chicago.
South – Butchertown in Louisville; Bywater in New Orleans; Deep Ellum in Dallas; Govalle in Austin, Texas; Wedgewood-Houston in Nashville.
East Coast – Gowanus in Brooklyn, N.Y.; Brewerytown in Philadelphia; Edgewood in northeast Washington D.C.; Little River in the north of Miami.
