Word: razed
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...entertainment zone. Mayor Eveland and the city council liked the idea, but never came up with a way to finance it. The activists also tried to persuade Eveland to join an innovative small-town renewal program called the National Main Street Center (see box), battled his plan to raze a historic downtown block to make room for a new City Hall, and fought to save a soaring Italianate school building from demolition--but they lost all those fights. The affable Eveland, 49, whose grandfather built many of Wilmington's most distinctive landmarks, ran the family construction business until it collapsed...
Holmes Realty Trust, a Newton, Mass., real-estate company, plans to bring a $20-million-dollar retail mall, apartment complex and parking garage to Mass Ave. To do so, it will raze 12 stores and displace 11 other businesses currently located there, according to store owners...
Durant, the manager of Maxi's 99-cent store, said he believes the construction will not only raze buildings but demolish morale as well. Durant said the changes will make minorities feel unwelcome in Central Square...
Three years later, the Bank agreed to completely restore--rather than raze--the buildings...
...council had received petitions and communications of support from a number of Cantabrigians calling for the down-zoning of three properties on Linnaean Street, one block east of the Radcliffe Quad. There, a developer is trying to raze a house to build condominiums...