gapsite

English

Etymology

gap +‎ site

Noun

gapsite (plural gapsites)

1. The location where a building has been torn down or demolished.
   • 2015, Jeff Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing!, page 197:

     On a gapsite between two crumbling tenements a bonfire was blazing and lethal-looking kids galloped around it.

   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 382:

     There were gapsites and half-demolished tenements but it was clear, after fifteen minutes of wandering around and climbing tenement stairs and craning out of landing windows, that the door-to-door team had successfully canvassed all of the buildings with a view of the warehouse.

   • 2022, Louise Welsh, The Second Cut:

     Some students were spray-painting a gapsite wall with Basquiat-inspired graffiti while others were tearing across the concrete on skateboards.