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According to reports, he plans to raze the other two properties—for which he paid a combined $147 million—and live in the most recent purchase while awaiting construction to be completed.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

Melton said it pains him to raze the downtown convention center, built in 1981, because it was the brainchild of the city’s first Black mayor, Richard Hatcher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Paramount would not look to raze its celebrated studio lot — the oldest operating film studio in Los Angeles — because of various restrictions on historic buildings there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026

Less than a year after watching flames raze his home in the Altadena foothills, Ted Koerner has moved into a brand new house, one of the first to rebuild in this Los Angeles suburb.

From Barron's ● Jan. 4, 2026

We had little sleep each night, not knowing when the bulldozers would come to raze our home.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

"Destructive human activities, like seafloor dredging, which razes entire marine communities, have turned seafloors into structurally simplified habitats with little settlement substrata or localised adult oysters to seed recovery," says Dr McAfee.

From Science Daily ● May 9, 2024

Amy and Danny's energy toward one another trades sweetness and consideration for the type of unhinged passion that razes lives to nothing but ash.

From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2023

One plan largely preserves the George C. Page Museum, another lays another story on top, while the last razes the museum and relocates the tar pits’ famous mammoth statues to a new museum building.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2019

It razes nine to 15 houses a year.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2018

Our quick-returning folly cancels all; As the tide rushing razes what is writ In yielding sands, and smooths the letter’d shore.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young

In 2017, the actor filed a request to have the existing property razed so that he could build a new home on the same site; however, his application was denied.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

The land razed by wildfires in Indonesia so far this year is double the area burnt in 2023.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Last January, Spencer Pratt’s house in Pacific Palisades was razed by the raging flames of the Palisades Fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026

But satellite imagery shows several olive trees around the house razed to the ground.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

It does feel to her like her entire world is being razed.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

In 2021 the Chicago Bears signed a purchase agreement for land at a former racetrack in nearby Arlington Heights, with the intention of razing the existing facility and building a new stadium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

The two largest blazes—the Palisades fire and the Eaton fire—ripped through entire communities, razing hundreds of properties, many of which remain nothing more than empty lots.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 2026

The Black Summer bushfires raged across Australia's eastern seaboard from late 2019 to early 2020, razing millions of hectares, destroying thousands of homes and blanketing cities in noxious smoke.

From Barron's ● Jan. 11, 2026

One by one, the anchors holding people in place - home, community, family - have been loosened by the constant uprooting of Gaza's population and the razing of its neighbourhoods and streets.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2025

He was now sent to aid General Gilmore, an engineer of some reputation, to carry out the favorite Boston idea of razing Charleston to the ground, as the original hot-bed of secession.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes