11.   A guy and a couple of his buddies had set up an informal shop on an empty lot.

12.   Across the street sits an empty lot.

13.   Broad said the one-structure plan would include using some USC parking and a shuttle service to empty lots downtown.

14.   But like many others, the Haders were too exhausted to keep going so they parked their tractor in an empty lot, creating their own makeshift refugee camp.

15.   But if you have a cooperative neighbor or an available empty lot nearby, you might just plant something you can then borrow.

16.   But up close its streets swarm with vendors, squatters have taken over all the empty lots and handwritten signs are tacked to anything upright.

17.   But then people began sleeping in an empty lot at the end of the block.

18.   Developer Dan Earlie said former Phoenix Councilman Salomon Leija had approached him about the prospect of bringing a residential project to the empty lots west of the state Capitol.

19.   Down the street, on the corner of Avenue M, the empty lot has native weeds and forgotten trash and a scraggly pine.

20.   Down the street is a block of abandoned buildings, bordering a shuttered gas station where litter blows around in the empty lot.