Sentence examples for built on the former from inspiring English sources

The Chicago Housing Authority and Target, the big-box retailer, appear to have reached a deal that would allow for a giant new store to be built on the former site of one of the world's most notorious housing projects.

Every one of the 17,544 houses built on the former potato fields of the Hempstead Plains had a lawn.

It was Roosevelt Raceway; Roosevelt Field Mall was built on the former Curtiss Field.

Great Neck South was built on the former Phipps Estate on Long Island's North Shore, during the baby boom era.

The dormitory is being built on the former site of the Palladium nightclub and the New York Academy of Music.

The jail was built on the former site of a Hoechst-Celanese, chemical plant that produced formaldehyde.

That is what both Mr. Smith of the Rockefeller Group and Mr. Gale of Gale & Wentworth are betting on for the office park they will build on the former Exxon property.

It is also negotiating to build on the former Treasure Island Naval Base in San Francisco.

After several failed attempts by developers to build on the former GM training site in the Rancho neighborhood, it appears a private preparatory school has won over local residents.

Among authoritative works built on the accounts of former detainees is a 2003 report, "The Hidden Gulag," by David Hawk.

In 1771 a trading post and fort were built on the site, a former Cherokee village, to serve westward travelers over the Wilderness Road blazed by frontiersman Daniel Boone.