From the late 1970s a number of families erected homes on the road between Southport and Gooseberry Cove, while others moved to Clarenville.

A few blocks away, meanwhile, at two separate sites, Chinese construction workers were hammering and drilling away to erect multifamily homes.

The local population grew beyond their allocated bounds (100 hectares) and began to erect homes and businesses on the private, abandoned land.

The residents say Mayor Mlaba promised during his last election campaign to erect new homes on the slum site and on vacant land opposite their hillside.

But one of the most active builders there spent 1988 erecting not homes but a $20 million office building near the conference-center hotel it finished in 1981.

In the early days, the students worked as brick makers, builders and carpenters to erect the various college buildings and homes.

Apparently operating under the principle of "If you build it, they will come," he plans to erect million-dollar homes there within three years.

Newly prosperous members of the bourgeoisie erected large homes, and began to take prominent roles in urban life that rivaled the aristocracy's.

Development of this area began in the 1870s when a large number of Swedish immigrants erected homes near their downtown businesses.

It took the parrots about 12.6 days to erect starter homes of twigs on the same utility poles.