on this spot

The huge crater containing a mangled mattress buried under a pile of dust and stone is all that's left of the building that stood on this spot just days ago.

She consulted with an impressive list of experts, from museum curators and historians to a glaciologist and paleobotanist, who advised her on what types of grasses likely grew on this spot thousands of years ago.

On this spot now, looking a bit like a ship itself, stands the eagerly awaited and long-delayed new International African American Museum.

Some the buildings have stood on this spot for centuries.

Few people are aware that a much darker history lives on this spot, where Japanese, German and Italian immigrants were unjustly imprisoned during World War II, often on baseless suspicions of being “potentially dangerous enemy aliens.”