"Eighteen months ago no one would talk about buying undeveloped land, " Mr. McGregor said.
For years, the 1, 000-acre stretch of undeveloped land, bordering on an industrial zone, was of little interest to anyone.
The state-run China Daily quoted Mr. Li as saying that the company planned to return some undeveloped land to the village.
For all their past exploitation, the northern forests are still the greatest stretch of mostly undeveloped land on the east coast.
Plumes of smoke from the blasts shrouded the area as the injured were laid out on a nearby square of undeveloped land.
The development's casino and a Ritz-Carlton hotel closed in 2010, and the company that owned much of the undeveloped land filed for bankruptcy protection.
The commission is urging the government to connect new homes with existing communities, rather than sprawling into undeveloped land, and to remove the current VAT incentive for developers to demolish homes instead of refurbishing them.
In Chongqing only 10% of the government's annual sales of undeveloped rural land are subject to the dipiao system.
And they got used to keeping the land undeveloped so long as the only effort needed was to quash anyone rising his head once in a while.
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With a keen sense of dispossession, I wandered out of the neighborhood to find someplace to sleep, and discovered that I had barely begun to use the resources available to me when I came upon an undeveloped piece of land as wild as I could wish.
Today the 525 acres purchased, they believe, represents the majority of the undeveloped gaming-allocated land in town.
Oscar-winning director James Cameron sold his 703 acres in Puerco Canyon to The Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority, and aside from having several buildings and old roads associated with a decades-old pig farm, the land is undeveloped.
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Over the past few days, permaculture practitioners and urban food policy followers not just in the Emerald City but around the globe have been positively abuzz with news that a hilly and undeveloped 7-acre parcel of land owned by Seattle Public Utilities will be transformed into a lush, forager-friendly wonderland called the Beacon Food Forest.
While she was married to Richard Burton, whom she famously met on the set of Cleopatra while still married to crooner Eddie Fisher (who had left his wife, Debbie Reynolds, for her making them the Jen-Brangelina of their day), Taylor bought a parcel of land in what as then a lonely undeveloped stretch of beach in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
The difference is that the Ryan plan was an undeveloped concept, whereas ObamaCare is the law of the land.
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If you were to drive west out of Baton Rouge to Lafayette and Lake Charles, you will see that most of the land south of I-10 is some form of undeveloped wetland or swamp.
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