Its godfather is Lew Manilow, a prominent attorney and fund-raiser (for Democrats and cultural institutions) who has long wanted to build an expansive new complex for Chicago's premiere nonprofit theater company, the Goodman, on a lot encompassing the Harris and Selwyn.

The Holiday Inn Sanibel is an expansive complex built in the 1970s.

The expansive, square complex called the Citadel is believed to have been the residence of the city's supreme ruler.

"With no room bigger than 10 feet by 10 feet, I was trying to make the minuscule living areas into a more expansive complex," he said.

In 1897, the Polish Franciscan Sisters began building an expansive complex on Schubert and Hamlin Avenues with the construction of St. Joseph Home for the Aged and Crippled, a structure that would also serve as the motherhouse for the order.

Located away from the former county seat in downtown San Rafael, the expansive complex stretches across two valleys just east of of US 101.

Travelling to the monastery, Lara descends through an expansive underground complex, pursued and attacked throughout by Pierre Dupont.

Down Calle Cuba, between Sol and Luz, stands the 17th century Convento de Santa Clara, an expansive complex that takes up several blocks.

This expansive complex receives well over a million pilgrims a year.