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Clinton Urban Renewal Area (CURA) The Clinton Urban Renewal Area (CURA), is a square bounded by 50th and 56th streets between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, in the West Clinton neighborhood of Manhattan. The CURA was created in 1969, to fulfill a series of comprehensive planning goals. These goals include:

•	Redevelopment of the area in a comprehensive manner, removing blight and maintaining appropriate land use; •	Removing or rehabilitating substandard and unsanitary structures; •	Removing impediments to land assembling and orderly development; •	Providing new housing of high quality and/or rehabilitating housing of upgraded quality; •	Providing appropriate community facilities, parks and recreational uses, retail shopping, public parking, and private parking; and •	Providing a stable environmental within the area which will not be a blighting influence on surrounding neighborhoods.

This large scale urban renewal plan was not realized. Through a coalition of community activists and Manhattan Community Board 4, more nuanced plans for a 2 block subarea of the CURA were developed in the 1990s. These plans, for West 53rd and West 54th Streets between 10th and 11th Avenues, have moved forward in bits and pieces.

Many sites have been or are proposed to be developed in accordance with CURA, which expired on October 23, 2009; CURA has not been renewed renewed.

Examples of projects developed in accordance with CURA: Clinton Commons The Eleventh Avenue Rezoning