On a cloudless early afternoon Wednesday, as word spread of video of a suspect, the finishing area of the marathon remained eerily quiet and vacant, cordoned off by crime-scene tape and metal barricades and the presence of police officers.
But with Spain in the grips of the 2008 economic downturn, the money earmarked for the improvements failed to materialise, and the site remained vacant, cordoned off from the rest of the city by a chainlink fence.
A very un-Cook lofted drive then sails through the vacant mid-off region for four and the carnage continues.
Dhoni finally takes the worm and whacks it miles up into the air and into the vacant long-off region, where it clears the rope just like Ravi Shastri says trickles for four.
He left the wide-volleys (which a well-balanced batsman would have driven for four), blocked or left the stock balls (some of which a well-balanced batsman could've pushed into the vacant mid-off and straight cover regions for a single) and generally tried to get out of the way of the throat balls (fair enough).
Mr. Suskauer noted that the six properties owned by Mr. Tublitz have been vacant on and off for six years, though Carrie Lemerman, the executive director of the Chamber of Commerce, said she thought the vacancies went back as far 10 years.
He sold off vacant public housing to private landlords who fixed it up and put tenants in it.
But outside, frustrated drivers cruised, finding blocks of curbsides vacant yet roped off for movie spots that were never used.
With Kalitta's lane vacant, Hight pulled off the starting line and, in a tribute to Kalitta, eased his funny car down the track.
The biggest string is that a successful bid in the competitive process involved will partly depend on councils selling off "vacant high-value social housing" it already owns, along with throwing in public land and working in partnership with housing associations.
