overbuilt

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Should the departure continue, or even increase, experts say it’s still not likely L.A. will ever be overbuilt like some of its Rust Belt counterparts due to pent-up demand that has never quite been met.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

“If you got to a point where you overbuilt, you could have that as an option,” he told analysts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Its growth is hobbled by the collapse of an overbuilt real estate market, sagging consumer confidence and high rates of youth unemployment.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2023

It’s powerful and unhinged and overbuilt — a monument to the entropy of the postindustrial city, and the tenuous dance of its inhabitants.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023

That suggested that Berkeley’s thirty-seven-inch machine was already overbuilt.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik