During the 1960's, there had been offers to buy the church as part of the city's urban-renewal program, but the church rejected them.

Celebrezze drove efforts to build or upgrade the city's infrastructure, a massive $140 million urban-renewal program.

He started an urban-renewal program to gentrify blighted areas of Guayaquil's center.

Under the powerful influence of multimillionaire R.K. Mellon, Pittsburgh became the first major city to undertake a modern urban-renewal program in May 1950.

In the 70's, the ambitious urban-renewal program attracted corporations and made the city the economic hub of the county.

But it refused to participate in urban-renewal programs because they meant accepting additional low- and moderate-income housing.

The property is "landlocked," according to Mr. Schandler, and the hospital will ask the city to acquire about five acres for its expansion in an unassisted urban-renewal program.

The buildings would be on the western edge of the city's business district where a 20-year urban-renewal program is reaching its conclusion.

Razed in an urban-renewal program.

Meanwhile, Democrats' hopes for new federal urban-renewal programs were dashed by the 1994 Republican triumph led by Newt Gingrich.