Sentence examples similar to run-down construction from inspiring English sources
ENGLEWOOD, N.J. — At a run-down estate on Palisade Avenue here, construction workers and landscapers clamber around in what appears to be a hurried top-to-bottom, inside-and-out makeover — all in anticipation of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and his traveling tent.
Before any new construction begins, however, contractors must demolish the run-down 60-year-old two-story former printing structure.
9 P.M. (DIY) A BRYK AT A TIME In Season 1 of "Family Under Construction," Danielle Bryk turned a run-down rooming house into her home.
The Commission approved the minutes from its December meeting, hired a local construction company to repair the run-down sewer plant and tinkered with the wording for the local curfew.
A large sign above the sidewalk explains the reason for the trucks: the construction of a 133-room Hilton Garden Inn on a run-down section of Valley Boulevard.
During the 1950s, construction of the Kennedy Expressway erased about half of the old, run-down market square, and in 1956, the statue was moved to a special platform built for it overlooking the freeway, near its original location.
Some places seemed dated or run-down.
