Fancy boutique hotels , bars and fully booked restaurants pack its rapidly gentrifying older quarters , while middle-class suburbs , replete with shopping malls and fast-food outlets , spread into the surrounding hills .
The study also found that there is more residential sorting by income , with the rich flocking together in new exurbs and gentrifying pockets where lower - and middle-income families cannot afford to live .
The design district and wynwood have been gentrifying and there are plans on the drawing board for condo development that are slowing coming back online after the housing market bottom fell out in 2008 .
