Except for warehouse space, the brewery remains empty; the investment firm that bought it in 2000 hopes to turn it into an ethanol plant, the mayor said.
Exports tumble, despite a 20% fall in sterling, so all we sell to foreigners is top London property left empty as "investments" in ghost town fashionable streets.
Venues are bulldozed to make way for more forests of empty gold-brick investment flats.
For more than a decade, Goldman Sachs had leased the space to train its workers, but it sat empty after the investment bank opened its new headquarters in 2009 at 200 West Street and consolidated.
But we don't want the type of developments currently sprouting up across London: empty shiny-glass investment units that on occasion get clad in brick so they can be risibly labelled "London vernacular".
As a native of Colorado, where formerly quaint mountain towns have morphed to a suburban sprawl of empty mansions for investment bankers who fly out for a weekend a year, I sympathize with the beleaguered double-homeowners in the article the way I sympathize with Hummer owners who are feeling the bite of high gas prices: not much.
If you'd read many of the headlines reacting to the news, you'd have thought that he'd pledged to rain hell fire down upon those rich people who are currently using London's empty homes as investment opportunities.
But some have gone, leaving behind empty houses, huge investments, and shattered dreams.
(As Alexandra Schwartz wrote, their New York is also a ghost town of empty real-estate investments).
It is about food that is full of empty calories and investments that are full of empty profits.
