Sentence examples for started to renovate from inspiring English sources

World-Wide leased the Park Place and Church Street buildings at the beginning of 2000 from Zar Realty, which had bought the structures three years earlier and started to renovate them.

The Associated Press reports that NIU officials have started to renovate the building.

Already, the construction company under contract to do the renovation, APEX Development Corporation, has built a new foundation for the studio and is starting to renovate the interior.

But museum officials, who are starting to renovate the ship's interior, said they declined to buy the sculpture from its owner, Rodney Hilton Brown, and asked him to remove it from the ship by September.

Much restored since the 1992 Olympic Games -- especially along the sea front at Barceloneta and in the port -- the city is starting to renovate industrial neighborhoods in preparation for the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures, a kind of social Olympics in which thousands of participants will confront international issues like globalization.

When the museum's director, Hilary Williams, and its chair of trustees, the weaver Jenny KilBride, Valentine's daughter, started to raise funds to renovate and expand the building in 2008, they decided to focus the program on Ditchling's artisanal heritage.

Now it's starting to expand its fleet by renovating two ships that will sail this spring.

To start with, we had £20,000 to renovate and furnish the property, all of which has been spent.

We decided to start the store and had to renovate the space we were in.

Executives have said they are leaning toward building anew, in part because it may cost as much to renovate as to start over and also because it is easier to raise funds for a new building than for an old one.

Most buyers who are planning to renovate prefer to start from scratch, she says, and some might be put off by a seller's alterations — particularly if the home was "renovated halfway".