parcels

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This market-driven renewal filled vacant lots and derelict sites, reduced blight, converted nonperforming parcels into taxpaying assets and created billions of dollars in new wealth for existing homeowners, with little evidence of widespread displacement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

By matching permits to investor owners, The Times found that plans are on file for two-thirds of their parcels, 50% higher than the overall rate for Altadena.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

This has generated huge volumes of small parcels that they say escape customs duties and pose unfair competition to local retailers.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

That same year, he snapped up two bayfront houses in Coconut Grove for $106.9 million, before also buying up multiple parcels of land on Star Island for a combined $169 million.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

Leopard, who was pleased with herself in her new dress, did not bother to find out where her children were and had no idea that they were inside the parcels which she was carrying.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith