Crown Candy might be a problem

We ate lunch at Crown Candy today and noticed two important things: 1) for an area so devoid of population and nearby jobs, the place was packed. There were people waiting at the front of the store to get a table. 2) We decided that the vast majority of the customers were not from Old North. Some were wearing business suits, hinting that they came from downtown. Anyway, these phenomena led us to discussion of the larger problem of gentrification in areas like Old North. Even if there is affordable/low-income housing in Old North, if there is enough desire to live there the locals will be forced to move out because the cycle snowballs until everyone wants to live there and prices can't help but go up. Crown Candy itself is not the problem, in fact the Malts are delicious and it's an amazing place, but if people are willing to drive from far away just to eat lunch there, and if Old North becomes as desirable as it seems it will, people will pay big money to live there, which will totally change the area.