Sentence examples for valuable plazas from inspiring English sources

La Familia stepped from the shadows in 2006, declared war on outsiders, and by 2008 had driven the Zetas from most of the valuable plazas in Michoacán.

Tijuana, with its easy access by land, sea, and small plane to the vast drug markets in California, is an exceptionally valuable plaza.

In reality, all the main crime groups had to share the booming Michoacán container-port city of Lázaro Cárdenas, a plaza too valuable for any one group to hold exclusively.

He gave no quarter in battles over plazas that he considered valuable.

"That means the plazas ought to be every bit as valuable to the people of New York as public spaces".

It took "both imagination and a sense of citizenship to clear an open plaza on some of the city's most valuable land and to throw it open to the light of the sun — and to the public".

Since 1961, zoning rules have allowed developers to put up bigger buildings -- in essence, adding valuable floors at the top -- if they provide the public with plazas, atriums, arcades and walkways down below.

Opened in May 2012, the 290-room Palace Hotel Tokyo is located on some of the city's most valuable real estate in Marunouchi – across a moat and fountain-filled plaza from the Imperial Palace and gardens.