Expensive waterfront redevelopment projects have not brought promised prosperity to the urban core

Expensive waterfront redevelopment projects have not brought promised prosperity to the urban core of Stockton, where numerous shuttered buildings hark back to the city's better days. The city has high crime, 18.4 percent unemployment and the worst foreclosure rate in the area. In 2010, Forbes magazine ranked Stockton as one of the three worst places to live in the United States. (Photo by Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)