The houses surrounding that alley are among 900 in east Baltimore razed or about to be razed to make way for a $1.5 billion, 87-acre (35-hectare) development centred around a new office park designed to attract start-up life-science corporations eager to be close to Johns Hopkins University.
A government official and army general said the state government had not requested additional security in Chibok, although every other school in the area had been razed or attacked by Boko Haram.
Its neighbours have been razed for hotels, and it looks to be going the same way.
The journey to Maiduguri from Chibok is an 80-mile (130km) stretch of abandoned villages razed by Boko Haram's insurgency.
Barring an improbable rescue from a wealthy investor, the Astrodome now looks likely to be razed at a cost of around $30m, sometime before 2017, when Houston will host the Super Bowl at the adjacent Reliant Stadium.
Whole villages were razed to make way for large-scale projects.
In particular, the house of the prophet's wife, Khadijah, was razed to make way for public lavatories; the house of his companion, Abu Bakr, is now the site of a Hilton hotel; and his grandson's house was flattened by the King's palace.
The outbuildings are razed to the ground; the entrance to the mine capped.
Houston-area leaders have said that if the referendum fails, the Astrodome will probably be razed.
Locals said at least 48 were killed in Alagarno and Shawa as the militants fired on fleeing civilians and razed parts of the village.
The town of Konduga in Borno State was all but razed to the ground in an attack in February – after which insurgents left with 20 girls.
