1. Banks, Lee argues, can help rejuvenate blighted areas and make a profit. 2. [Alfred Street ] is now in what city-planners call a blighted area . 3. Redevelopment agencies pass bonds and can buy and develop land in blighted areas . 4. With these improvements, residents and businesses have been attracted to formerly blighted areas . 5. But police in California have been imposing them in gang-blighted areas since about 1987. 6. St . James Church stands on a hill in a blighted area of Newark. 7. The result, he said, is that business people make fewer investments in blighted areas . 8. Over the decades, Augusta's waterfront had became a blighted area . 9. Centennial Park will enliven a blighted area of downtown. 10. TIFs, or tax increment financing districts, were created to stimulate economic development in blighted areas .