The phrase "a former building" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a building that previously existed or served a different purpose before being replaced or repurposed.
Example: "The site of the new park was once occupied by a former building that had been abandoned for years."
Alternatives: "an old structure" or "a previous edifice."
Following its acquisition this year of Woolwich, a former building society, it generates almost three-quarters of its revenues in its home market.
A grand jury has indicted a former building contractor on charges of embezzling about $1 million from six subcontractors, Attorney General Peter C. Harvey announced on Tuesday.
HBOS, which was formed from the merger of the Halifax, a former building society, with the Bank of Scotland, would presumably be as entitled to government support on its own as is, say, the wounded Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).
Northern Rock, a former building society that took a shine to the wholesale money markets, was actually encouraged to push the boat out.Mr Sants became chief executive of the FSA just before the bank went bust.
Holy Zion bought the property, a former building supply warehouse, for $415,000 in 2003, and a loan for $327,000 was recorded in 2007, according to Coweta County property records.
Structure: A former building or erection of any kind, indicated by post holes, wall foundations, etc. Layer: Deposit of material that seems to have been made during one particular time.
The apartment is in on the seventh floor of the Alexis building, a former industrial building converted to apartments in 1997.
Barclays, which had been worth some £30 billion before the LTCM crisis, was now valued on a par with former building societies such as Abbey National and Halifax.
However, our move to Jacks Hall left them abandoned without a computer in our former building, which was disintegrating.
In a trading statement, the former building society said operating costs would be "significantly below 2004", which would boost profits.
He stood 5-foot-2, trailed cigar smoke and always wore a gray suit topped by a fedora, said Gregg Carlovich, his former building manager.
