Sentence examples for being razed for development from inspiring English sources

Later that year, a busload of P.S. 243 students and teachers accompanied Maynard as she delivered a petition to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission to grant the Hunterfly houses landmark status, which would protect them, despite their condition, from being razed for development.

"Our building in Chelsea was being razed for new condo development.

There is little clear-cutting by loggers in the tropics, except where forests are being razed for agriculture.

Do we really want West Virginia mountaintops being razed for Christmas light displays?

The land beneath the warehouses containing studios and galleries has recently been sold to developers, artists say, and the warehouses could be razed for commercial development and a park.

It was a prosperous residential neighborhood in the late 19th century, but virtually every home was razed for commercial development in the 1890's.

At one time, Caltech owned scores of storage bunkers and other support buildings throughout the foothills, but most were razed for residential development in Kinneloa Mesa and Kinneloa Estates, where houses started popping up in the 1960s.

Its neighbours have been razed for hotels, and it looks to be going the same way.

World War II icon to be razed for concert venue in Costa Mesa.

Dilapidated lane houses and tenements are being razed to make way for high-rises, boutiques and yoga studios.

And wherever there is such demand for tropical agribusiness, forests are being razed to meet it.