Plainfield, New Jersey, is still a blighted community because of riots that happened almost fifty years ago.
Once a notorious riot happens in a community, it takes a long long time for them to bounce back. It makes no sense to run a toy store in a community that is going to be a basket case for the next half-century, at least.
The business district of Watts, Calif., along 103rd Street, never recovered after the riot whose fiftieth anniversary we will be commemorating in a few months.