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His 130-foot-long cinder-block building on Belmont Ridge Road in Ashburn opened in April 1980.

At country auctions, many treasures are in the eye of the beholder Post 2010

His 130-foot-long cinder-block building on Belmont Ridge Road in Ashburn opened in April 1980.

At country auctions, many treasures are in the eye of the beholder Post 2010

A desolate market sits behind the giant train station, a jumble of cinder-block storefronts, almost all abandoned and strewn with rubbish.

The Next Empire 2010

Rebuilding efforts have been meager: on the outskirts of town sits a half-finished housing development, empty new cinder-block homes with no doors or glass in the windows.

The Trial of Thomas Lubanga 2009

The rehab clinic is in a shabby two-story building on an unpaved street lined with cinder-block hovels, old cars, and derelict buses.

The Fall of Mexico 2009

It roared down Main Street, through the middle of town, sawing homes in half, tossing trucks and residents thousands of feet away and pulverizing cinder-block houses and aluminum trailers alike.

Miss. town tries to recover, rebuild after tornado 2011

Two feet of white picket fence, made of wood-textured plastic, stuck out of the ground on either side of the cinder-block stairs.

So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011

We pulled up to a little cinder-block building marked “Clinic,” and I threw the truck into park.

How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

But her friends filled just a few cardboard boxes with the remnants of her life in the cinder-block house.

South Struggling With Cleanup Douglas Belkin 2011

It was in a small cinder-block structure there that she and her husband, the late Bishop James Peebles Sr., and their three sons built a Washington-area institution from scratch.

Betty Peebles, Jericho City of Praise senior pastor, has died Emma Brown 2010