Armed British police officers patrol around the new United States Embassy building in London, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018. The new U.S. Embassy in London, denigrated last week by President Donald Trump as too expensive and in a poor location, is set to open to the public. The embassy, in the formerly industrial Nine Elms neighborhood, will open for public business Tuesday. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Armed British police officers patrol around the new United States Embassy building in London, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018. The new U.S. Embassy in London, denigrated last week by President Donald Trump as too expensive and in a poor location, is set to open to the public. The embassy, in the formerly industrial Nine Elms neighborhood, will open for public business Tuesday. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) Credit: Matt Dunham

London — The gleaming new U.S. embassy in London opened on Tuesday with little fanfare and no official ribbon cutting. President Donald Trump sparked a furor here last week when he tweeted that he wasn’t coming to open the $1 billion building — the most expensive embassy ever built — because it was a bad real estate deal and in an “off location.”

Many of those who live nearby took offense to Trump’s description of the location, but others said that the former New York real estate mogul makes a point.

In interviews on Tuesday outside the embassy and in the surrounding area, it quickly became clear that one person’s “off-location” is another person’s “up-and-coming.”

On Tuesday morning, the first day the embassy officially opened to the public, a small queue formed outside the entrance for consular services.

“I can see why someone would say it’s (an) off location,” Sheron Cloyd, a 41-year-old project manager from New York said over the sound of a chain saw. “It’s not in the city center, it’s south of the river.”

But Cloyd, who also lives south of the river — one of London’s physical dividing lines — said that the area near the embassy has become trendy over the last few years.