Sky Development also purchased an adjacent parcel behind the building to construct a parking garage.

Those efforts included attracting a proposal for a $1.4 billion family entertainment, office and retail complex to an adjacent parcel.

Merck has also leased an adjacent one-acre parcel for possible future development.

It would be demolished not to make way immediately for a new building on its site but to enhance development of adjacent parcels.

The county also bought the adjacent 36-acre parcel for $3.2 million.

The company bought six adjacent parcels, each with buildings of about 20,000 square feet on one or two acres.

Plans call for razing the existing buildings on the 4.7-acre site and acquiring an adjacent 2.8-acre parcel.

It is based on the same kind of zoning the city recently approved for an adjacent parcel.

Initially, a new building was to be built on an adjacent parcel of land.

On the adjacent parcel is another plaza containing a new Wal-Mart.