Only a short walk from the National Mall, it looks like a good place to live, work and hang outHyra described the massive transformation in the U Street/Shaw area, where the city's once most infamous open-air drug market has become a farmers' market now selling grass-fed beef and homemade duck egg ravioli新利体育香港版The area has seen a sharp increase in the white population and skyrocketing property prices, a sign of gentrification in the Washington DCLocated in southwest Washington along the waterfront next to the famed Maine Avenue Fish Market, its first phase will open on Oct 12Hyra described 新利体育香港版how the "dark ghetto" has been turned into a "gilded ghetto"Chen Weihua/China DailyHaving lived in Washington DC for almost five years, I have seen the city growing, with new construction and renovation projects happening in many streets and neighborhoods