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development area

noun

  1. (in Britain) an area suffering from high unemployment and economic depression, because of the decline of its main industries, that is given government help to establish new industries
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Should such movement occur, it would be outside of the development area, he said.

More than 100 landowners in the development area have agreed to sell their properties for a collective $2.1 billion.

A total of 102 landowners in the development area have agreed to sell their properties for a collective $2.1 billion.

Republican Supervisor Pete Candland recused himself due to a conflict of interest: He lives on a property in Pageland Lane, the proposed development area, that he has pledged to sell to developers.

“You’re going to have a development area in a downtown unlike any in America,” he said.

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