![]() 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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