Author Bruce Sterling writes of "squelettes":
So, where are the squelettes in Honolulu? One of the most massive has to be the development at Victoria Ward Centers, mauka of Queen St., next to Hokua. And it looks to me like the high-rise condo on Kapiolani Blvd., makai of McKinley and east of Ward Ave., is also pretty much stalled. I'm sure there are many more... and find the phenomenon fascinating.
We’ve long had a term of art for old buildings that are ruined: they’re called “ruins.” However, we lack a term of art for “ruins” that are actually buildings never completed. Sometimes they’re completed buildings that are never sold, and thereforethey start falling over before they were ever inhabited. This would be the American real-estate bust version of the phenomenon.
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