The authorities said she had helped a developer obtain a vacant tract of city-owned land and asked him to build her a $500,000 house in exchange.

The state bought the vacant tract through condemnation proceedings in 1971, when then-Gov.

There are scattered vacant tracts in city ownership, many of them once occupied by abandoned housing.

The fly-ash is disposed of by converting it into a wet slurry and dumping it into vacant tracts of land (which become what are known as ash-ponds).

Distant from the Historic Area and not along the carefully protected sight paths, the vacant tract was long unproductive for either CW or the community.

The sites are vacant tracts with rolling hills that would be perfect, Mr. Spinola said, for 1,000 moderately priced apartments in low-rise buildings.

It is those vacant tracts that are supposed to come under Palestinian control.

Detroit's rate of depopulation is such that the possibility of turning vacant tracts in the city into farmland has been floated, if only half-seriously.

He owns the vacant four-acre tract called Parcel 38 behind the Stamford Town Center mall.

But the Mayor said Mr. Trump should not mistake civility for support of his proposal to develop a vast vacant tract on the West Side.