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The phrase "acquire a building" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the process of obtaining ownership or control of a physical structure, typically in a real estate or business context.
Example: "The company plans to acquire a building in the downtown area to expand its operations."
Alternatives: "purchase a building" or "obtain a building."
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A long-term goal, she said, is to acquire a building.
The Joffrey is about to acquire a building in the downtown Loop area, a gift from Commonwealth Edison.
To secure approval, the city made commitments to acquire a building and produce at least 120 single-room-occupancy units.
It was those rising rents that persuaded Mr. Guillen, a native of the Dominican Republic, to acquire a building and move his store to its current location about four years ago after nearly a decade in the neighborhood.
The Williams Companies said yesterday that it would acquire more stock in its Williams Communications unit, and the unit would buy back a promissory note and acquire a building from its parent company.
In 1997, Mr. Sussman, who had earlier withdrawn his investment adviser registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission, settled a claim with the commission that he had failed to disclose a loan he made from a hedge fund he controlled to acquire a building that was used as offices.
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Ronald Morey, a Garden City landlord, testified today that from the moment he acquired a building on Stewart Avenue a year ago, he so feared violent anti-abortion protests that he tried to break an 11-year lease with an abortion clinic there.
Just when he had finally acquired a building to teach from, she died abruptly in 1973.
In 2007 Marco Novali, an Italian, and his two partners acquired a building on the quiet and leafy Rippl Ronay street.
He acquired a building at 129 Pierrepont Street, started a preschool, made the school independent from the church in 1982 and engendered what the school hails as "creative chaos".
General Foods moved from Manhattan in 1954 and has expanded within Westchester County twice since then, acquiring a building that now serves its international operations on the Rye site and adding a major research facility on the Hudson River in Tarrytown.
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