A bit down the road from us, there was a not-quite-a-park empty lot in the middle of a small commercial district that quietly sat there for years.
Couple of years back, it and a nearby parking lot were sold to a developer to tear up and build a pair of upscale mixed-use apartment buildings that were set to open soon.
Those buildings are both burning to the ground as I type this.
I really hope they don’t take the adjacent arthouse cinema, brewpub, and older apartment buildings with them.