31.   Officials said the fire became even more dangerous to firefighters as the building became unstable.

32.   Others are striking roof-top management deals, luring owners with the promise that every multistory building will become a revenue-producing cell site.

33.   Over the years, the Abyssinian Church building would become apartments, a stable, a junk store.

34.   Presto, change-o, the office building became a hotel with a restaurant called Carrousel.

35.   Slowly, our public buildings are becoming places where citizens can enter only at serious inconvenience and only under the suspicious gaze of cops with guns.

36.   The abandoned buildings also have become magnets for crime, officials said.

37.   The buildings have become feeding grounds for drug dealers, prostitutes and pimps.

38.   The building eventually became a rental home.

39.   The building has become a point of pride for the community.

40.   The current library building would become a student center, with a food service area.