Sentence examples for built on a former from inspiring English sources

FOR 56 years, Werner Kleeman's corner of the world has been a small house on a quiet street in Flushing, Queens, a brick, Cape Cod-style two-family house that is one of a row of similar homes built on a former potato farm during the Depression.

It's built on a former brownfield site.

Built on a former palm oil plantation near the airport, it is difficult to reach.

The circuit is built on a former World War II airfield, and it has changed layout often throughout the years.

One such farm, Greensgrow, which was built on a former Superfund site, sold $1 million in produce in 2012.

Even the city's main shopping belt, Orchard Road, is built on a former graveyard that was dug up.

(It's built on a former parking lot that, in the time of the Fulton Fish Market, was an unloading spot for the day's catch).

But the track in Malaysia, built on a former swamp in a palm oil plantation, is not only about what's on the ground.

The store, which cost $5 million to build on a former parking lot, is at 450 West Broadway (near Prince Street).

It was built on a polluted former industrial area with the goal that emissions should be 50percentnt lower than in similar housing developments built in the 1990s.

It was built on a wealthy former Anglo-Saxon estate by Bishop Odo of Bayeux following the Norman conquest of England in 1066.