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

Azeez Akanni hopped on a yellow bus heading for the central business district on Lagos Island, beads of sweat rolling down his neck and arms.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

AT&T is planning to relocate its global headquarters from downtown Dallas to the nearby suburb of Plano, a move that would deal another powerful blow to the city’s reeling central business district.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 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

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