Sentence examples for dilapidated area from inspiring English sources

But by the 1990s all that was left was a wholesale market in a dilapidated area.

The building, dating from 1890 and situated in a historic but dilapidated area of downtown Rio, was in ruins when she found it.

They discovered an office block being renovated in Stokes Croft, a previously dilapidated area of Bristol now being rejuvenated into something of a media hub.

The new company, JBG Smith, with Mr. Kelly as chief executive, became the dominant landowner in a Northern Virginia region now being called National Landing, a dilapidated area that includes parts of Crystal City, Pentagon City and Potomac Yard.

Little remains now of the cosmopolitan city that Schendel would have found in the 1950s – the downtown district of Luz, then the city's beating heart, is now a scrubby, dilapidated area with a serious drug problem.

Mr Izmirlian, the son of commodity tycoon Dikran Izmirlian, who made his money cornering the global peanut market, was asked to try and revitalise the rundown area of Cable Beach, a dilapidated area of the island long overlooked in favour of other boltholes.

But evidence presented to the committee by the Centre for Local Economic Strategies showed how targeting procurement spend into dilapidated areas can regenerate them.

The producers have avoided the tourist-laden town squares that the Czech authorities have recently redecorated in pastel pinks, blues and yellow and instead have chosen more dilapidated areas or have filmed at night.

It was part of a drive to expropriate property in dilapidated areas to boost modernisation – in part for safety reasons, in what is an earthquake-prone part of the world.

To correct this, Chico proposes the city follows Montreal's model, in which graffiti artists are commissioned to beautify empty lots in dilapidated areas.

The investigators suspect that social isolation among women living in dilapidated areas with high rates of violent crime may contribute to poor cancer outcomes.