Eminent domain and failed urban renewal in the 1960s

“There would “never be any substantial development to enable the downtown section — which is the tax base of the city — to improve itself without major surgery of the kind that urban renewal can give it,” said the authority’s attorney, Richard W. Smith, in July 1962.”

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Culbertson, Charles. Newsleader.com 6 October 2012.