A redevelopment agency is a government body dedicated to urban renewal. Typically it is a municipal level city department focused on a particular district or corridor that has become neglected or blighted. In many cases this is the city's original downtown that has been supplanted in importance by a regional shopping center. Redevelopment efforts often focus on reducing crime, destroying unsuitable buildings and dwellings, restoring historic features and structures, and creating new landscaping, housing and business opportunities mixed with expanded government services and transportation infrastructure.

Examples

• The Las Vegas Redevelopment Agency
  Las Vegas Redevelopment Agency
  Las Vegas Redevelopment Agency is a redevelopment agency whose goal is to work in concert with the community and private sector to reverse the physical, economic and social blight within its designated boundaries.-History:...
  
   has created many project that have led to jobs growth and city beautification.
• The city of Richmond, California
  Richmond, California
  Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city was incorporated on August 7, 1905. It is located in the East Bay, part of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is a residential inner suburb of San Francisco, as well as the site of heavy industry, which has been...
  
   used its agency to refurbish Macdonald Avenue
  MacDonald Avenue
  Macdonald Avenue is the main east-to-west artery in the Oakland suburb of Richmond.-Overview:Macdonald Avenue runs in a straight line from the Richmond Parkway through downtown to San Pablo Avenue, after which it continues as a minor street for a few blocks, ending at Ludwig Avenue in El...
  
  , Macdonald 80 Shopping Center
  Macdonald 80 Shopping Center
  Macdonald 80 Shopping Center or simply Macdonald 80 is a 200,000 sq. ft. regional shopping mall in the North & East neighborhood in Richmond, California anchored by a Target store. The center was largely demolished and rebuilt after suffering from urban decay and blight...
  
   the city's downtown and a transit village
  Transit village
  A transit village is a residential development planned around a transportation hub, such as a train station, with the intent to make it convenient for village dwellers to get to/from work or run errands and travel via a public transportation network....
  
   at the Richmond BART/Amtrak station
  Richmond Station (California)
  Richmond Station is an at-grade Bay Area Rapid Transit and Amtrak station located in Richmond, California. Each system is served by an island platform. The Capitol Corridor, San Joaquins, California Zephyr, and Coast Starlight stop here and connect to BART. The station is currently being rebuilt...
  
   and the creating of the Richmond Greenway
  Richmond Greenway
  -History:It runs along what was formerly the right-of way of the Santa Fe Railroad parallel to Ohio Street, between the end of the Ohlone Greenway adjacent to the intersection of Macdonald and San Pablo Avenues, and Point Richmond. There is a connector from the trail to the Macdonald 80 Shopping...
  
   among many other projects.
• The city of Fremont, California
  Fremont, California
  Fremont is a city in Alameda County, California. It was incorporated on January 23, 1956, from the merger of five smaller communities: Centerville, Niles, Irvington, Mission San Jose, and Warm Springs...
  
   engaged in a redevelopment of Irvington station
  Irvington (BART station)
  Irvington BART station is a planned Bay Area Rapid Transit station in southern Fremont, California part of the Warm Springs BART extension.-History:...
  
  , focused on transit oriented development.