What was farmland then is now a desirable urban neighborhood near major highways and shopping centers.

This is considered to be a desirable neighborhood due to its proximity to the ocean as well as the college.

But it was on East 54th Street, in what was then a less desirable neighborhood.

Today it is regarded as among southeast Portland's most desirable residential neighborhoods.

The area has become a booming bedroom community since a high increase in new housing being built in the desirable neighborhood.

Choice homes with period architectural details in the most desirable neighborhoods are scarce.

In particular, the areas west of Route 315 are regarded as very safe and desirable neighborhoods.

Later, in the last decades of the 19th century, it became a more desirable neighborhood after the current state capitol and Washington Park were built.

The students in the public school came from the tougher, less desirable neighborhoods that fringed the area.

"We have evolved into being undesirables in a very desirable neighborhood."