The catch is that property developers are turning the decrepit buildings, abandoned when most businesses fled a crime-wave for the northern suburbs in the early 1990s, into swanky apartment blocks, and property prices have been rocketing.
The catch is that property developers are turning the decrepit buildings, abandoned when most businesses fled a crime-wave for the northern suburbs in the early 1990s, into swanky apartment blocks, and property prices have been rocketing.
上世纪90年代初，多数商业公司因为要远离原所在地的犯罪高潮而搬迁到北郊，吊诡之处在于，房地产开发商将他们遗弃的破楼改造成了时尚公寓街区，而房价也一路上涨。