That amount might even allow the school to landscape its huge front yard, now not much more than raw land.

"And would you make me a loan to buy some raw land?' "

"It's raw virgin land, and the community wanted to be involved upfront in the planning process."

Now we don't sell raw land to anybody other than professionals.

But it wasn't just raw land for a developer to do what he wanted with.

With so many empty buildings in this country, who wants to buy raw land and build more?

"This used to be farms and raw land," he said.

The raw scrubby land out back would be that way.

Thirty years ago I bought raw land as an investment.

The earth was disturbed, and the dead lay on top of the raw land.