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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
redevelopment
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
urban
▪ To many this brashness spoke volumes about the form which urban redevelopment was taking.
▪ One applauds Kacy Keys, former dancer and current urban redevelopment attorney, for her efforts to create a dance culture Downtown.
▪ It was also supported by housing advocates who thought urban redevelopment would increase or improve the housing stock.
■ NOUN
agency
▪ Later, the mayor will reimburse the agency from his coffers, they were assured by redevelopment agency fiscal officer Steve Agostini.
plan
▪ So the redevelopment plan to move the businesses from the north to the south side of the street remains on hold.
▪ But Montana, the city planner who worked on the Hayes Valley redevelopment plan, said there were trade-offs.
▪ There is hope along the street that the redevelopment plan will work out -- hope mixed with the fear it might not.
▪ Thus its members initiated a strategy to ensure that their redevelopment plan would be implemented.
project
▪ Part of that has been sparked by the visibility of the redevelopment projects.
▪ C., redevelopment project for $ 500, 000.
▪ The ambitious redevelopment project is currently being co-ordinated by the London Road Development Agency.
▪ The second move will be requesting the Redevelopment Agency to extend the South Beach redevelopment project area to include the ballpark site.
▪ Townsend has been crisscrossing the state in recent years, checking out redevelopment projects and meeting voters.
▪ By this point, the council had initiated the first of several large redevelopment projects proposed by the business elite.
▪ The $ 8 million building is part of a redevelopment project funded primarily by the City of Oakland.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The city has spent millions on downtown redevelopment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ East Village redevelopment, done right, could help almost everybody's causes, even a ballpark.
▪ Inner city redevelopment facilities will be available for tarmac tracks, specifically for the purpose of hotting.
▪ Later, the mayor will reimburse the agency from his coffers, they were assured by redevelopment agency fiscal officer Steve Agostini.
▪ Plans for the redevelopment have not yet been finalised, a spokesman for the council said this week.
▪ Then the elite persuaded the newly elected mayor to appoint a committee to lay the groundwork for redevelopment.
▪ They speak of economic justice, economic redevelopment, fiscal conservatism and good business.
▪ This process of redevelopment and movement was quite different from that of suburbanization by addition.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Redevelopment

Redevelop \Re`de*vel"op\, v. t. & i.

  1. To develop again; specif. (Photog.), to intensify (a developed image), as by bleaching with mercuric chloride and subsequently subjecting anew to a developing agent.

  2. to rebuild an urban area, usually commercial but sometimes residential; -- typically involving some portion of government involvement and expenditure. [PJC] -- Re`de*vel"op*er, n. -- Re`de*vel"op*ment, n.

Redevelopment

Redevelopment \Re`de*vel"op*ment\, n. the rebuilding of an urban area, usually a commercial district but sometimes residential or industrial, and typically involving some portion of government involvement and expenditure; to organize a municipal redevelopment agency.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
redevelopment

also re-development, 1830, from re- + development.

Wiktionary
redevelopment

n. 1 The process of developing something anew. 2 The demolition of old, redundant or unfashionable buildings or infrastructure and the construction of new ones on the same site.

WordNet
redevelopment

n. the act of improving by renewing and restoring [syn: renovation]

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Wikipedia
Redevelopment

Redevelopment is any new construction on a site that has pre-existing uses.

Usage examples of "redevelopment".

Day Care Center several years ago have been, at least temporarily, diverted to build an inline skating rink used primarily by upper middle class kids from outside of the redevelopment area.

Laid out in the mid-1950s as part of Speer's redevelopment of the city, it was a square of expensive-looking apartment buildings, erected around a small memorial garden.