The shows will sweep into a pretty empty development, turning it into an absolute spectacle for the afternoon when speculators come in.
Regardless of location, the neighborhood's landmark status and its dearth of empty development sites complicate matters for builders.
But in some ways the killer is there all along, in the form not of a person but of a house — a malevolent family house rotting in a half-empty development begun in the Irish boom in the 2000s and all but abandoned in the subsequent crash.
Some of us do appreciate the beauty and barrenness of our countryside and find the ugly, empty developments on them obscene.
Meanwhile, the bull-dozing of old businesses to make way for the new empty developments has only accelerated the exodus from the city; Detroit's rate of population loss in recent years is second only to that of post-Katrina New Orleans.
The sight of a stalled construction project or half-empty development touches off, even in the most disinterested passerby, a kind of queasy delectation.
Outside the building, in the real-life sunshine of this pleasant afternoon, the chess dome is surrounded by a pristine, empty housing development where polished cars stand parked in front of vacant town houses and theoretical sidewalks.
In the 1960s and 70s, Brazil largely viewed the Amazon as an empty place in need of development.
In North America, a frontier mentality persists in the cultural mindset and rich biodiversity is associated only with remote areas, reflecting a model of an empty world in which human development is completely isolated from the natural (wild) processes.
"We wanted," he told the governments providing the troops, "to demonstrate that the United Nations resolution was not an empty gesture, and to avoid the development of a vacuum in the area".
