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After several weeks of meetings our Redemption Group decided to create a Redemption Zone where we would focus our efforts in the early stages of our work, to concentrate our limited resources most effectively. We selected an area of inner-city Springfield approximately 10 square miles in size, encompassing several of the most distressed neighborhoods.