vacant lot

noun

: a piece of land that is not being used

The children played in the vacant lot between the two buildings.

Examples of vacant lot in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Through the brokerage firm CBRE, Madison Equities has made a public call for a single buyer to purchase six downtown office buildings, two parking ramps, the Selby Avenue restaurant The Handsome Hog and the vacant lot next it. —

Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 10 May 2024 Besides his Malibu and Atherton properties, Andreessen—whose net worth is currently estimated at $1.9 billion—also reportedly owns a $36 million vacant lot just outside Las Vegas. —

Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2024 In another case, a residential vacant lot with a market value of $26,000 would pay nearly $32,000 in special assessments over 40 years, not counting interest. —

Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2024 The next night, Eberhart and I were parked between a hamburger joint and a vacant lot prowled by feral cats. —

Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024 One of those properties was a vacant lot in the Child’s Park neighborhood of south St. Petersburg. —

Ben Wieder, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024 The business would close after 6pm making the vacant lot a perfect choice for a pop-up food operation. —

Kyle Russell, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2024 Get the data Tony Atwater had been hoping to keep a vacant lot that had been in his family for generations. —

Ben Wieder, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024 CalMatters When Sacramento changed its plan to demolish a homeless encampment on a vacant lot on Colfax Street, instead offering the homeless occupants a lease, activists and camp residents celebrated it as a win. —

Calmatters, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024

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