![]() The advertiser agrees that LNP Media Group, Inc. No part of this newspaper may be broadcast, reproduced or republished in any form or by any means without prior, written permission. ![]() LNP and are protected by federal copyright statute. “Far from trickling down and spreading out generally, the commercial development strategy of the last decade has in itself likely contributed to They say the data show that neglected neighborhoods, notably Cabbage Hill and the southwest, are increasingly distressed. While these disti nct divi - sions in a city of only 59,000 residents have deep, historic roots, decisions since 1998 to invest $1.5 billion in the more successful parts of town appear to have widened the chasm, say researchers at Franklin & Marshall College’s Floyd Institute for Public Pol- icy. The other Lancaster is a hodge-podge of aging, dis- tressed neighborhoods where homeownership is the excep- tion and joblessness and pov- erty are increasingly the norm, particularly among blacks and Latinos. One Lancaster is the cel- ebrated downtown and James Street corridor, where the commercial, professional and leisure classes live, work and play. ![]() The result is two Lancasters split by growing dispariti es in wealth. Conomic development strategies over the past 15 years that revived Lancaster’s moribund downtown may have caused precipitous decline throughout much of the rest of the city where mostly minorities live, a new report says.
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