Norwood, ohio—in this town, which is surrounded by Cincinnati, there is a field surrounded by a high chain-link fence. Across a street on one side of the field is a residential neighborhood of modest homes. On another side is an upscale shopping center with a Starbucks, and Birkenstock and Smith & Hawken stores. The field used to be a neigh- borhood with 99 houses and small businesses, but almost all the structures have been destroyed. One of the homes that remain—the developer of the shopping center wants to level all so he can expand his domain—was for 35 years the first and only home owned by Carl and Joy Gamble, who are both in their mid-60s.
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