Sentence examples for began downtown from inspiring English sources

The race began downtown, winding through the city before heading north to the Great Wall.

B1 Corporate Dispersal Some Midtown businesses are moving to disperse employees among several locations, a trend that began downtown after Sept. 11.

But let me begin where I began: downtown, in Market Square, the center from which all things progress from morning to night.

Collectively, the buildings contain 1,018 of the 3,267 apartments that have been completed or have got under way in the three years since the conversion of offices to housing, stoked by city-sponsored tax incentives, began downtown.

Since conversions began downtown in 1995, 5,480 rentals have been or are being created and 300 more are to be started before the end of the year, according to the Alliance for Downtown New York, the area's business improvement district.

Following his tracks last week, I began downtown in a dim, sweltering bar on the Bowery, then advanced uptown to a law office behind St Patrick's Cathedral, where the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation has its headquarters in an environment euphemised by thick carpets and the soothing whisper of air-conditioning.

Later this summer, work is to begin downtown on a new $150 million baseball stadium for the Expos.

The marathon's route begins downtown in Grant Park, winds through the Loop, and runs through the North Side before returning downtown.

At $150 million a mile, the current line will begin downtown and stop short of the airport, with a shuttle covering the last mile.

We begin downtown, where Goldman Sachs, that exemplar of 0.001 percent America, reaps a multimillion-dollar tax break for its office tower, a deal accompanied by a multimillion-dollar landscaping clause.

But the District had a promising new mayor and activist, Marion S. Barry Jr. Three lines of the new Metro system had opened, and 70 buildings had been completed or begun downtown during Barry's first term.