Stadium and team owners are especially eager to fill empty seats, because so much of their revenue comes from food, drink and souvenirs.
Eager to fill an empty downtown storefront, Grinnell, Iowa, took an unusual approach: it held a national contest and offered a hefty prize.
Mr. Gielen, who hung in when many other downtown businesses fled for the malls, is eager to see the empty shops along Cherry Street come back to life.
Patricia Ferguson, the Labour MSP for the area and a former Scottish government minister who was brought up in the blocks, said: "I know that many local people were eager to see these empty blocks brought down as soon as possible.
While much of the rest of the cast, like Anne Hathaway, has spoken about being terrified of singing live, at a party for the movie the other night (which we have been milking all week) Mr. Redmayne told us that he was quite eager to get his big number, "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables," over with.
With nearly 40percentt of Bangkok's completed office space empty, few are eager to spend money to finish the buildings.
Mr. Jemal owns three small commercial buildings in old Anacostia that are currently empty and is eager to assemble more parcels to create a commercial, retail and residential development.
In their dreams (and in their long lunches with accountants and investors) the people farmers spin a trance-like spiel about a huge cohort of baby boomers soon to reach retirement, empty nesters without responsibilities, eager to wile away their twilight years in glorious consumption, placidly awaiting the dying of the light.
They're more likely to get private rooms than summer employees, freer to wander around an empty station, and often eager to embrace the small town community vibe their fellow loners get into, where the scientists and support staff actually get to intermingle and share the load of running the station.
