How to Use business district in a Sentence

business district

noun
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Much of the town, located not far from the Mississippi River, was leveled by the storm, including its business district.
    — Rachel Wolfe, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2023
  • According to the town, the goal was to allow commercial development for the town’s downtown business district.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Russian officials blamed Ukraine for the drone assault, which damaged the facades of two office buildings in a business district but did not result in any injuries.
    — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 31 July 2023
  • According to the statement from Coster, police received multiple calls at 7:22 a.m. about a person discharging a firearm on the third floor of the building, which is on a plaza in the city's central business district.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • The branch, in the lobby of the Pandora building at 250 W. Pratt St., is expected to serve clients in the central business district and offer access to members across the city, credit union officials said.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2023
  • Drive-thrus are already off-limits in downtown’s central business district.
    — Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 July 2023
  • After a lot of on-again, off-again activity in Dallas’ central business district feels vibrant once again.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • All were located around the downtown business district and didn’t echo into the surrounding neighborhood, so most people didn’t hear them.
    — Jane Braxton Little, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Investigators hope there will be plenty of surveillance footage since the shooting happened in the middle of a busy business district.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 18 Aug. 2023

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