This effort, however, was in vain, since landmark status was denied and a developer razed the building shortly thereafter.

Given all of this effort and expense, one wonders why the developers did not simply raze the building and start over again.

The developers, in turn, would eventually rebuild Penn Station, raze the old Garden and build a mixed-use large complex of apartments, office space, a hotel and retail stores.

A developer called Richman Housing Resources will raze a former chapel beside the sanctuary and put up a 21-story tower in its place.

Affordable housing, already scarce, will be even harder to find as developers raze storm-battered neighborhoods and replace them with expensive subdivisions and condominiums.

The developer would raze the existing structure and rebuild, possibly also building on the parking area behind the store.

It still harbors dreams of those towers, and is restricting retailers to five-year leases with demolition clauses that would allow the developers to raze the sites even sooner.

To help meet it, developers would raze five single-family houses and build 60 town houses in their place, reserving 12 of the town houses for people making less than $27,200.

Following the town approval, the developer, Traditional Links, razed a large portion of the woodland, referred to as the Grandifolia Sandhills, to make way for the course.

Last February, developers planning new homes razed three old cottages on a 17-acre Staten Island tract called Spanish Camp.