Blighted Area Study

Assessing a Community and Supporting Local Government in Its Drive to Revitalize

Applied Analysis knows Southern Nevada, from the bighorn sheep in Boulder City to the Mt. Charleston summit, we’ve seen it all. In this analysis, our commitment to understanding the region’s challenges through data-driven and community-informed research yielded critical insights. This blighted area study has helped inform the CCRDA’s efforts to mitigate economic disrepair in our community. As a result, the CCRDA established four new redevelopment areas spanning a combined 1,400 acres.

This project focused on the study and evaluation of six large urban areas, totaling nearly 5,000 acres, for blight conditions as dictated by the state code. The study required parcel-level analysis of a dozen criteria for over 8,600 parcels. These blight criteria were then evaluated using a combination of primary data collection from field observation, geospatial analysis and third-party data, with many conditions requiring multiple forms of analysis. The resulting evaluation of potential redevelopment areas included analysis of seven additional characteristics for each of the six areas, culminating in the use of over 225,000 data points to determine alignment between each area’s characteristics and redevelopment code.

Clark County Redevelopment Agency

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