But it deteriorated under its current owner, the estate of Sol Goldman, until the city sued the estate for neglect.
During his three-year minority, his estates suffered from neglect and poaching.
The trouble is flat ownership turns tenants into leaseholders, with a commitment to help foot sometimes eye-wateringly large repairs bills of neglected estates.
They are impecunious young Brit aristocrats, new in town and looking for nouveau riche Americans to inject cash into their crumbling family home and neglected estates in Britain, on which can be found innovative clay-mining machinery of Sir Thomas's own design.
We are not in central London; we are living in these little urban pockets, living on top of each other in neglected estates.
Lavish entertainment and outrageous gambling do nothing to alleviate his world-weariness, while his estates and tenants languish neglected.
Spending some time toiling alongside these little platoons of ordinary Britons, in neglected housing estates or perhaps the depressed coalfield communities near his South Shields constituency, could exorcise his inner wonk.
But the authority needed 2 Broadway to be ready for occupancy within a year, a remarkably short time frame for a building that required enormous work after years of neglect, real estate executives said.
She has often been called on to tame a neglected estate garden.
From 2002, he was chairman of Birmingham's Castle Vale neighbourhood management board, a pilot scheme to regenerate a neglected estate.
