Gulou is indeed dilapidated — partly because the constant threat of the bulldozer has given residents and shop owners little incentive to invest in its upkeep.
The neighborhood's Uptown district, along a once dilapidated stretch of Euclid Avenue, also has been revitalized.
They said it was exploitative and all this sort of stuff, and it was really like, "Whoah!" I mean, we really were broadsided about it and by it, and there was one thing where they were talking about the dilapidated dwelling of the Mosher family, and I just thought, "God, that's just such classist bulls***, because, dilapidated according to whom?" You know?
Well, perhaps it's because they're not so lovely... but instead dilapidated and in need of some serious repair.
His website states he buys "dilapidated properties in need of development".
By the 15th century, Bath's abbey church was badly dilapidated and in need of repairs.
In 2008, Bruce was cited by Colorado Springs for two properties they considered "dilapidated," in part because of windows boarded up under orders from the city, but the charges were ultimately dropped when Bruce sold the buildings.
In addition, the Giuliani administration drastically reduced the number of mostly dilapidated apartment buildings that the city wound up owning and managing because of tax foreclosures.
And in "The King's Speech," I don't think I was particularly pursuing beauty because I wanted to get a different version of royalty, which was about sitting around in all the echoey rooms that were sort of dilapidated.
Entire streets are made up of dilapidated, abandoned buildings.
