The agency and other local urban development groups "are something better done without," he said.

But even the head of the development group admits that all this work might not be enough.

The economic development group his church started will go into hibernation.

The development group will make applications available late this month to potential tenants.

The area between these two rivers have joined to a combined development group.

A previous development group had proposed to convert it but never moved forward.

He doesn't even know who is going to run the development group that's going to control the 49 percent.

They maintained their identity as an independent development group within Sierra for several years.

Even so, not-for-profit development groups, using both public and private dollars, have been fighting back.

But some people complained that too few local development groups were chosen to handle the projects.