In 1981, she bought a small dilapidated building in Cicero, a Chicago suburb, to serve as United Scrap's headquarters.

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His son recalls there were hundreds of students lined up outside the school, which was in a dilapidated building in a dirt-poor village.

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"If we only redid the sanctuary, it would have been a beautifully restored building that was empty most of the time, instead of a dilapidated building that was empty most of the time, " he said.

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Seventy years ago he was born here, on the grounds of the Sa Cova vineyard, in a dilapidated stone building built into the gentle slope of the hillside.

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It plans to open the centre in 2014, describing the current premises as "our dilapidated and atmospheric building".

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In the village of Santo Domingo, the ICRC sets up its clinic in the long abandoned health centre - a dilapidated three-room building with broken windows, and, like the rest of the village, no electricity.

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The Conservative-led council had planned to replace the building with a car park, claiming it was in a "dilapidated state" and was running at a loss.

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Some are dilapidated but others have been spectacularly restored, including the former Bank of Indochina building, which now houses a fine-dining restaurant with an excellent view across the square.

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According the the WSJ, a housing court judge in Cleveland, OH ordered a landlord accused of various building violations to live for 6-months in one of his own dilapidated rental properties.

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