The city of St. Louis is trying a new strategy to fight urban blight. A massive project to raze an entire neighborhood and turn it into a new campus for a government intelligence agency.The $1.75 billion project will keep thousands of jobs in the city, but comes at the expense of a historically black community that remains skeptical of how much of the development will benefit them.The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has had a presence in St. Louis for decades, but outgrew its old facility. St. Louis joined other bidders in offering the agency land for free in order to keep the facility in the city.[[{"fid":"307833","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_description[und][0][value]":"Darren%20Spencer's%20home%20in%20North%20St.%20Louis.%20Soon%2C%20this%20area%20is%20to%20be%20the%20new%20location%20of%20a%20campus%20of%20the%20National%20Geospatial-Intelligence%20Agency.","field_description[und][0][format]":"full_html","field_byline_text[und][0][value]":"Kimberly Adams/Marketplace","field_migration_notes[und][0][value]":""},"type":"media","attributes":{"height":1333,"width":2000,"class":"media-element file-default"}}]]The area where it will eventually be located is a blighted section of North St. Louis, where, according to the city, only 88 structures were occupied in the 100-acre area.But it was a controversial process convincing the families remaining in the neighborhood to leave. Some were forced out by eminent domain. <>“If we had to move, we had to move. At least they’re paying you,” said 58 year-old Darren Spencer as he oversaw cousins and nephews moving boxes and bags out of the family home in the neighborhood. He lived there with his parents and his son until his parents both died in 2016. Spencer said the home was full of good memories.“My mom, my dad, they loved the holidays—cooking dinners and stuff like that,” he recalled...