How to Use business district in a Sentence

business district

noun
  • The search ends with a lynching on a country road, a procession to the heart of the Black business district and a riotous bonfire quelled when the governor calls the militia.
    arkansasonline.com, 5 Oct. 2024
  • There are just 134 rooms, in the middle of the central business district.
    Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The concept of a tax for a central business district isn't new.
    Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The media event was held on the 19th floor of the Korea Press Center in Seoul’s central business district.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The shooting occurred on the Strip, a business district of bars and restaurants that cater to students near the Tuscaloosa campus.
    San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2023
  • There are plans for deck parks and new pedestrian bridges to link the areas south of I-30 with the central business district.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 2 May 2023
  • In the eastern part of the Loop, the central business district, the owners of the iconic Chicago Board of Trade building handed the keys back to lenders.
    Isis Almeida, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Block 216 is the largest and most expensive building in the city’s central business district in four decades.
    oregonlive, 10 June 2023
  • The initial fire began burning around 6:35 a.m. in an area more than a mile above the town’s central business district.
    Mike Baker, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The sirens of police and ambulances could be heard wailing through the city’s canyon-like central business district for much of the morning.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
  • The office is located at 1401 Peachtree Street in the arts and business district of midtown Atlanta.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The highlight was a 1.24 mile parade through Seoul’s main commercial and business district to the bustling Gwanghwamun area that is the gate to a sprawling palace in the heart of Seoul.
    Reuters, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Mwangi stayed out of the Nairobi central business district on Tuesday morning, not sure how the protests would turn out.
    Rael Ombuor, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
  • The attack happened in a business district of high-rise office buildings known as Moscow City, west of the Kremlin.
    Daha Litinova and Emma Burrows, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The 1,300-square-foot storefront at Cedar and Hamilton avenues is located in the heart of the neighborhood's business district.
    Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Dad's Place is zoned within the city's central business district, so people cannot eat, wash clothes or sleep at the property, the complaint reads.
    Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 19 Jan. 2024
  • That’s been reflected in the low foot traffic in the city’s central business district, which extends to the Lloyd District and South Waterfront.
    oregonlive, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Czerniak added the city would like to keep Post Office site within the central business district.
    Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 3 July 2023
  • It’s been an eccentric fixture in Makati City, Metro Manila’s central business district, since the 1980s.
    Maryam Jillani, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Even without Musk, San Francisco’s business district is in dire straits.
    Byjane Thier, Fortune, 17 July 2024
  • After deadly tsunamis wiped out part of the town of Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii, the town was rebuilt, placing the main business district and all its structures farther from the waterfront.
    Martha Shade, CNN, 7 Aug. 2024
  • There are bars in the West 7th business district, entertainment stages in the Stockyards and Sundance Square downtown continues to grow.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 May 2024
  • In June, the Dallas City Council put the brakes on the proposal, taking issue with the planned railway passing overground through the city's central business district.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
  • Much of al-Rimal, the city’s once vibrant business district and social epicenter, was reduced to rubble.
    Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
  • More than 1,000 homes were burned, hundreds more were looted and destroyed and a thriving business district known as Black Wall Street was decimated.
    CBS News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Young men patrolled the area, which borders the modern business district, chasing away journalists.
    Rick Noack, Washington Post, 1 July 2023
  • The nexus of our Centers of Excellence is our state-of-the-art facility in Phoenix, Arizona, within the capital city’s business district.
    Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The issue has been a huge flashpoint in Brookline, for example, where town planners had proposed to rezone the main business district along Harvard Street.
    Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The 26th street corridor is the second-highest grossing business district in the city after the Magnificent Mile.
    Ilana Arougheti, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The bank sits on the fringe of Louisville’s developing downtown business district, said state Sen. Gerald Neal, who represents the district where the shooting happened.
    Mark Morales, CNN, 11 Apr. 2023

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