Several investigations have failed to establish the fate of the Petrocaribe funds, beyond mismanagement including spending on abandoned construction projects.
We chose the missile field around Grand Forks, N.D., but abandoned construction there as not worth the effort.
When I went in March, the city was filled with abandoned construction projects, their steel girders stabbing the sky from concrete shells.
Last summer the plant's owner, Southern Company, America's second-largest utility company, announced it was abandoning construction after years of blown-out budgets and missed construction deadlines.
In Riga, the capital, abandoned construction sites, vast lots of repossessed cars and a new, utterly empty shopping mall testify to the misery.
On North Korea's desolate eastern coast, 600 miles directly across the Sea of Japan from here, soldiers guard an abandoned construction site where two light-water nuclear reactors were to be built.
It looks like an ordinary abandoned construction site, but the hole at 1610 Avenue S in the Homecrest section of Brooklyn offers a history of the twisted limbs of government and building in New York.
But now, in a big setback for Uruguay, ENCE, one of the two companies involved, has announced that it is abandoning construction of its plant on the contested border site, raising the prospect of renewed protests over the other factory.The project involves a total planned investment of $1.7 billion, representing 10% of Uruguay's GDP.
Around the middle of May, a group of students went to work on another tunnel, which started within a temporarily abandoned construction site, enclosed by a six-foot-high wooden fence, at a street intersection some three hundred yards from Checkpoint Charlie.
The owner, a company called SCI, based in Genoa, Italy, put up the framing, then abandoned construction when the market collapsed in the early 90's, said Carl Austin, president of Austin Corporate Properties, of Port Chester, which represented the owners in the sale to the Alfred Weissman Company, in Yonkers.
