redevelopment

redevelopment
/ree'di vel"euhp meuhnt/, n.
1. the act or process of redeveloping.
2. an often publicly financed rebuilding of an urban residential or commercial section in decline.
[1870-75; RE- + DEVELOPMENT]

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