I'd like to buy, if possible, close to two of those borders so the development front hits it from both sides.

Buying a home with the idea of selling it (at a profit) is more of a gamble than a strategy unless you buy something with the intention of doing a live-in flip.

It is always a gamble when buying a condo unless maybe it just received its recertification recently.

North Tulsa (north of the brady arts district, within the Booker T school distric) and South OKC (bordering the river) are historically rougher, South Tulsa and North OKC are historically more affluent.

It's a gamble, but an exciting one.

It benefits from being bordered by Beverly.  

I say if your worried about it don't take the gamble.

The property management company I work for manages ~100 properties in the LA area, mostly in neighborhoods bordering the 605 freeway (Whittier, Downey, Commerce, South Gate, Bell Gardens, Pico Rivera, etc.)

Are you the gambling type?

I live on the Massachusetts/New Hampshire border and am licensed in both.