To be fair, much of the ample CPU tower was empty, earmarked for extra features power users might add, such as CD writers and Zip drives.

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Several floors in the famous newspaper building right in downtown Los Angeles, like the Tribune Tower in Chicago, became empty.

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Hopping out of the taxi at the Starbucks there after an amazingly quicker ride than normal in the still relatively empty streets, I took up elevator up Tower A to go see Feng Deng, who heads NLVC.

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New York office tower, which is slated to be empty in a few years, according to a notice sent out by Sony's real-estate advisers at Eastdil Secured LLC.

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But in recent years it has become the home of huge empty lots and darkened projects, including Las Vegas Plaza and Fontainebleau Las Vegas, a hulking bluish-green tower that was 70 percent finished when construction ended.

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