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Blight

Dilapidated or abandoned property. Blight causes low property values in the surrounding area, and is strongly associated with crime and capital flight. Many municipalities take steps to reduce blight; for example, a city may offer a tax incentive for a business to move into a blighted area or a grant to repair a building. Some blighted areas, however, are considered to be beyond repair.

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or deteriorating area, or an area which has a blighting influence on the

See generally Colin Gordon, Blighting the Way: Urban Renewal,

New York's fight over blight: the role of economic underutilization in Kaur

18) When Costco threatened to relocate in 1998, Lancaster officials relying on the old "blight" designation moved to acquire the 99 Cents property through eminent domain--with the intention of giving it to Costco outright, a tack which the courts, in a rare check on local blighting, condemned as "nothing more than the desire to achieve the naked transfer of property from one private party to another .

Blighting the way: urban renewal, economic development, and the elusive definition of blight

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