The museums thrived, but the building deteriorated.
But over the years, Mr. Jordan has seen the building deteriorate.
From the late 1970s until the mid-1990s, Belnord tenants fought bitterly with the owners at the time, Lillian and Nathan Seril, as conditions in the building deteriorated.
Over the years, as their descendants moved away and Chinatown pushed closer to the temple, the congregation dwindled and the building deteriorated.
Letting a building deteriorate so much that it can be knocked down is one tactic; bribing building inspectors to evict tenants illegally is another.Yet there is little evidence that gentrification is responsible for displacing the poor or minorities.
Recalling the frustration that she said she felt as a housing advocate, "watching landlords let a building deteriorate so that they could push out tenants and sell," Ms. Quinn pledged that the Council would pass a measure allowing the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to require landlords to fix underlying conditions, rather than simply make cosmetic fixes.
Sadly, the legal actions do not make much of a practical difference for the seven tenants who had held out over the years as the building deteriorated, but were forced to leave last September after the Fire Department deemed the structure too dangerous to inhabit.
With the decline in membership, the building deteriorated.
We've seen the building deteriorate, and Metcap doesn't really listen to our requests for repairs.
Over time, the building deteriorated, and a project was approved in January 2007 for it to be renovated for use as a cultural center.
Early accounts by Harvard officials spoke of buildings deteriorating badly, which could have been due to excessive moisture.
