Stirrings in the Bronx?

They laughed when developers began buying up brownstone shells in Harlem in the early 2000s.  They laughed when Roberta’s opened in Bushwick.  They laughed when big $ hotels opened on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope.

So check this out: The Opera House Hotel opens in the South Bronx.

http://www.welcome2thebronx.com/wordpress/2013/08/16/first-luxury-hotel-the-opera-house-opens-in-the-bronx/?subscribe=success#blog_subscription-2

Hmmm?  Along with residential newcomers to the southern end of the Grand Concourse, methinks there’s something afoot here on The Mainland (the Bronx).  Check it out.  Could be the bad old days are finally fading.