A broad coalition of civic leaders, city planners and subject matter experts convened today with guidance from the Center for Planning Excellence (CPEX) to put the thorny topic of “blight” front and center on the agenda. A sense of urgency and promise pervaded the full-day symposium, “Reinvesting in Louisiana: Identifying and Combating the Root Causes of Blight,” where academic and legal theories combined with reporting from the front lines to reveal the wide scope of the pro