1.   The overgrown vacant lot was Declared a public nuisance.

2.   Across the street, next to an overgrown lot, are a couple of abandoned buildings.

3.   But the newest part of Aiken, a numbing mix of strip malls, overgrown lots and older residential tracts, could be Anytown U.S.A.

4.   It is now home to overgrown empty lots, abandoned houses, dump sites, oil-polluted lorry repair areas and gunny sack storehouses.