Sentence examples for on teardown from inspiring English sources

Neighboring properties are a mix of midcentury moderns, ranches and large, newer houses built on teardown lots.

Neighbors range from small 1950s structures to large newer homes built on teardown sites, most of them tucked away on wooded lots.

High-end new construction on teardown sites has tapered off, but where it exists, it tops out in the high $600,000s and low $700,000s.

Mr. Primavera pointed out that there tended to be less restriction on teardown activity in poorer urban areas, where the populace and public officials can be overburdened with keeping streets safe and similar issues, and where there is a lack of resources to focus on the loss of older housing stock.

"That upset a lot of people," she said, "and there was a big push for a moratorium on teardowns there".

Realizing this, more and more places are using innovative planning tools and strategies to put the brakes on teardowns and foster compatible development.

Officials in several communities said that they did not have figures on teardowns but those in the Towns of Hempstead and Oyster Bay said that they appeared to have decreased significantly from 2007.

In fighting the trend, many communities are becoming "more and more proactive," said Adrian Scott Fine, director of the Northeast field office of the National Trust in Philadelphia, and an expert on teardowns.

I HAVE been reporting on teardowns since 2006, when I went to watch the demise of a 2,500-square-foot 2,500-square-foot 2,500-square-foothat had sold for $1 million.

Ric Martel, the manager of the Coldwell Banker brokerage office in Spring Lake, N.J., told the tale of one family's unusual twist on the teardown phenomenon.

The inner workings of the iPad are similar to previous models, based on a teardown by the Californian gadget-repair firm iFixit, one of whose team queued up in Australia to get one of the new tablets and quickly took it apart.