Ms. Tenger filmed the building after this event, in time-lapse sequences over two years, from 2005 to 2007, when the hotel was empty and undergoing renovation.
Landlords would still be able to deregulate empty apartments after making renovations, in a process known as "vacancy decontrol," but the rent ceiling would rise to $2,500 from $2,000.
Empty buildings would make renovation or sale easier.
Half a dozen more are in mid-renovation, stripped and empty, front yards filled with bags of cement.
As of 2009, the Castle of Richard the Lionheart still stands empty and fenced off in renovation.
The new and luxurious Pearl Continental Hotel built on a cliff overlooking the port and the town below is empty – it has been closed down for "renovations".
As ABC News reports, that number is substantially lower than it could have been: The plane collided with an area of the building that was undergoing renovations, so it was relatively empty.
Jones has expressed concern at the number of empty and decaying properties in Wales, and renovation projects such as this one re-animate those shells.
The lounge was scheduled to close in a few days, part of the airport renovation, and the room was empty except for the bartender.
After an 18-month renovation, the rundown rows of empty buildings that, like battered bookends, long filled the corners of Morningside Avenue at West 117th and West 118th Streets in central Harlem, have been turned into 49 condominium apartments.
