The 2013 study, done by a CSU professor who interviewed two dozen Latino residents in the area, revealed that fault lines in relations with the city already had appeared and recommended reaching out to those communities.įort Collins has instituted no anti-displacement regulations, per se, according to Gloss, who adds that “the market’s going to dictate if an area ends up changing.” She found, by exploring census data dating back to 2000 and plugging it into a widely-used statistical model, that the area appears to be in the early stages of gentrification. In 2015, the city commissioned a Colorado State University student to look for quantifiable variables in the wake of another study two years earlier that first raised concerns about gentrification in those neighborhoods. (Ed Kosmicki, Special to The Colorado Sun) New development is increasingly encroaching on these older areas of the growing city. Museo de las Tres Colonias curates the history of three Latino neighborhoods on the north side of Fort Collins: Buckingham, Andersonville and Alta Vista. In Fort Collins, it’s seeping into an area called Tres Colonias, where three separate neighborhoods - Alta Vista, Andersonville, and Buckingham, traditionally Latino for many years - have appeared on planners’ radar screen as the elements of cost and convenient-to-downtown location attract new buyers. I’ve been on panels with other planning directors, and this story seems to be coming up in many communities, where we see displacement going on. “Price increases are happening throughout the community, throughout the Front Range,” says Cameron Gloss, Fort Collins’ long-range planning manager.
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