Sentence examples for open parcel from inspiring English sources

At the same time, Howard moved to develop the last open parcel in the Times Square redevelopment area, a 40,000-square-foot parking lot on 42nd Street.

Four decades later, the city is planning a 32-story office tower on the last open parcel, an L-shaped site known as 5B, which is bounded by West, Greenwich, Warren and Murray Streets.

Restoring some or all of the street grid through the remainder of the 16-acre site -- another favorite design element at both public meetings as well as among design professionals -- would also accomplish another public priority, by opening up more space throughout the area rather than creating one large open parcel of land.

These sites are the last open parcels in the 39-year-old Washington Street Urban Renewal Area, created by the clearance of 25 blocks along Washington Street, once the spine of a wholesale food district anchored at the south by the Washington Market hall.

Certainly, I've now knocked out getting on for a thousand of them, ranging from things I never knew and have already forgotten – as it were, barely opened parcels of information, indifferently passed on – to others that are old and personal and well-worn, and have a distinct reek of me.

"You open a parcel and you don't know what you're going to get.

The Department of Environmental Protection transferred an open green parcel in southeast Queens after completing a big sewer project a few years ago.

It's akin to the Christmas morning from hell, when you excitedly tear open a parcel and discover stripy socks with toes, and a topless photo of James Blunt.

A man in the crowd put a tourniquet on Olga's leg, and a policeman appeared and grabbed Pearl, ripped open her parcel, and quickly saw that what was inside was a sawed-off shotgun.

Why was I thrilled when Truffaut, as the director in his La Nuit américaine, eagerly tears open a parcel of books on the cinema, one of which is a symposium on Godard containing my 1965 essay on Une Femme mariée?

The secretary who opened it in fact opened a parcel bomb.