((vanessa)) and fox-13's kellie cowan shows us: the changes are ?swift, and really ?noticeable. comes to mind when you think of florida avenue in seminole heights, think again this corridor is really exciting: we have the rooster and till, trips diner, the rum distillery, and this retail space over here is about to open upmichael kahn, a realtor who lives in seminole heights, has watched things change rapidly ... we're getting the residential investment as well as the commercial investment and that's really what's going to bring the neighborhood up and keep it that way""the independent was one of the first of its kind to set up shop here on florida avenue and since then they're been in great company. dozens of new restaurants bars and businesses have opened up over the last five years, changing the look feel and flavor of seminole heights.in just the last three years, more than 30 businesses have opened up along florida avenue, helping to turn this once crumbling 1920s neighborhood into one of the hottest real estate markets in the bay area thanks in large part to small business

kellie cowan said businesses are popping up every month. >> that's pretty much the strip. >> if this is what comes to mind when you think of florida avenue in seminole heights, think exciting. >> and we have this here. we have across the street we have the retail space growing up. >> michael kahn has watched things change rapidly. >> and residential investment as well as commercial. >> it was one of the first of its kind to set up a shop here on florida avenue and they have been in dozens of new restaurants, bars and businesses opened up over the last five years changing the look, feel and flavor of seminole heights. >> in the last three years more than 30 businesses have opened up along florida avenue. helping to turn this 1920s neighborhood into one of the hottest real estate markets in the bay area. thanks in large part to small business owners who live here, too. taking. you take here. you a morning the lots t is paying off. many of the hots have given way to new neighbors. >> this was an old. and it has been here a number of years, it is being turned into the first rum distiller

kelly, i should add that this is not a crime scene, but that could change. >> all right, very important information. thanks for updating us, claudia cowan, and if there are any new developments please bring them to us. thank you. >>> a fox news alert now, live pictures from the boston suburb of cambridge, massachusetts, where firefighters battling another fire, this one a nine alarm fire. right now in a residential district, close to both harvard and mit, cambridge, massachusetts, by the way is a very centralized area, a lot of buildings, picture it a very tight little city with several little small buildings and colleges and a lot of college students, very densely populated area, these pictures from several blocks away, showing all that smoke billowing in the area. no word on how this fire started. we'll bring you more information as soon as we get it. now to the donald trump transition, where a conversation between the president-elect and the president of taiwan is ruffling some feathers with the government in beijing. china now issuing stern complaints to the u.s. over a phone call between mr. trump and taiwan's leader. now the diplo