vacant

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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

Williams previously had a third property in Jupiter, a 2.4-acre vacant lot, which she listed for $6.5 million in 2017, just three years after purchasing it for $4.12 million in 2014.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

Taylor will defend her WBO, WBA, IBF and Ring Magazine titles and attempt to add the vacant WBC belt against mandatory challenge Pili, who boasts a 12-0 record.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

The orchestra is trying out candidates for the vacant position of concertmaster, and Marc Rovetti, who is assistant concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra, delivered them with clean reserve.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

Up a slight slope, across an expanse of vacant lots, a modern church, quite large, stood in a lazy pall of white smoke—St. Ignatius, I assumed.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson