It had also sat fallow for four years as Ms. Feldman and Ms. Birch tried to figure out what to do with it.

In the 1960's it was filled with construction debris and then it sat fallow.

"The base will sit fallow, a no man's land, with no opportunity for our people to find employment."

The lot, in the meantime, sat fallow.

The man who owned it had told the press he was going to let it sit fallow for now.

The site, known as Rockefeller Plaza West, was a victim of the recession in the early 1990's and sat fallow for nine years.

In an interview, he said the Republicans were "crazy to contest" Missouri at this point because they "allowed it to sit fallow for so long."

Mr. Cohen said his company never intended to let the land sit fallow.

It never materialized and the site sat fallow.

The original I.S. 171 site has been sitting fallow for the last seven years.