I think it's one of those blighted areas now.

"I'm not going to build a line through one of their blighted areas," he said in the same indifferent voice.

Jobs must be created near blighted areas, and tax incentives could help.

"Some of the blighted areas probably needed to be bulldozed anyway."

Q. What is happening with the downtown's most blighted areas?

During the 1980s, the community struggled with blighted residential and commercial areas.

The restaurant, he said, also gave 200 people jobs and brought life to a blighted area.

The result, he said, is that business people make fewer investments in blighted areas.

Several small businesses have been started in this blighted area, with limited success.

The tour of the blighted area was added at the last minute.