business district

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Aqua Line is the city's new fully underground metro train connecting the old business district of Cuffe Parade to newer commercial hubs like BKC and the airport terminals in the northern suburbs.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

In Manhattan, amid majestic but modestly scaled historic buildings and far from the chaos and skyscrapers of the Midtown business district, "this is where companies want to establish their long-term headquarters," Johnson says.

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

Part of Dallas’s problem is that the city never developed around a single, dense central business district in the way older Northeastern cities did.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

But the area has not been the dominant business district for spread-out Southern California for decades, and the pandemic led to more office vacancies.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025

There are still a few houses scattered around—all of them modest, narrow, wood-framed structures stabilized with brick buttresses—and a couple of buildings in what was once the central business district.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson