Sentence examples for abandoned stores from inspiring English sources

In other words, even retail success can create abandoned stores.

Ms. Wanjiku found houses and abandoned stores for dozens of people to sleep in.

Putnam, once a manufacturing center, was in serious decline until the abandoned stores were revived as antiques shops and marketplaces.

The author writes that such huge abandoned stores will "dot the exurbian and rural landscape from coast to coast" when gas reaches $14 a gallon.

Driving to work, "every few blocks or so, she finds herself alone at an intersection, waiting on a red light at a corner that looks and feels abandoned, stores with metal enclosures locked, empty bus shelters".

GARY, Ind .— With block upon block of crumbling houses, abandoned stores, and churches and theaters left to rot like ancient ruins, this old industrial city can easily seem like a ghost town of vanquished dreams.

Some were taken initially to a fire department facility, but then it flooded so they were moved to an abandoned store.

GILLETTE AND ZAK WING vividly remember the day in 2009 when they were walking down Atlantic Avenue on the cusp of Brooklyn Heights, peering into an abandoned store front and casually fantasizing about opening an antiques business.

The decline in store cards began decades ago but accelerated in the 1980's and 1990's, as more and more retailers accepted outside credit cards and shoppers abandoned store cards.

Desolate towns with abandoned store- fronts, the local populous gathered dejectedly around their shanty residences, soaked in a soul-deep aura of sadness.

With a special interest in the darker side of sprawling metropolises, Ryan Monahan's collection of grungy city tableaus, complete with corner bodegas, adult video stores, abandoned store fronts, capture the spirit of the inner city in minature.