Sentence examples for empty developments from inspiring English sources

Some of us do appreciate the beauty and barrenness of our countryside and find the ugly, empty developments on them obscene.

Meanwhile, the bull-dozing of old businesses to make way for the new empty developments has only accelerated the exodus from the city; Detroit's rate of population loss in recent years is second only to that of post-Katrina New Orleans.

Regardless of location, the neighborhood's landmark status and its dearth of empty development sites complicate matters for builders.

The museum now sits forlornly in an empty development, a symbol of architectural achievement as well as the folly of ambition.

The shows will sweep into a pretty empty development, turning it into an absolute spectacle for the afternoon when speculators come in.

The sight of a stalled construction project or half-empty development touches off, even in the most disinterested passerby, a kind of queasy delectation.

But in some ways the killer is there all along, in the form not of a person but of a house — a malevolent family house rotting in a half-empty development begun in the Irish boom in the 2000s and all but abandoned in the subsequent crash.

London is being hollowed out by empty residential developments that only people in low-tax countries can afford.

Lenders may have recognised many of their debts on empty property developments, but have done little to recognise the debts on their distressed mortgage lending.

But in recent years, we have seen instances where the markets have amplified risk, financed a ton of unproductive investment — such as empty housing developments in Florida, Ireland, and Spain — and helped bring on the deepest recession since the nineteen-thirties.

Other photographs in the book show abandoned and empty housing developments, as if they are suspended in time, places that were about to become homes or neighborhoods.