By 1900, the Twin Cities were becoming a center of commerce, led by the Minneapolis Grain Exchange and the foundation of the Federal Reserve Bank with its ninth district in Minneapolis.
If the Forks is the historic center of commerce, then the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights is the moral core of Winnipeg, if not the whole country.
That discovery began long ago when Benjamin Palmer planned New City Island in 1761 as a center of commerce to rival New York until the Revolution derailed the project.
Chengdu (population 7.1 million), located in the heart of an agricultural, densely populated, interior province, Sichuan, is considered a local center of commerce and finance and transportation and communication and is an important part of China's 2000 Western Development Plan.
What was once a center of commerce has now become more of an urban residential neighborhood, expected to grow even more once the Purple Line subway is extended under the Miracle Mile.
Like present-day New York, Edo (now Tokyo) was the center of commerce and trade.
Córdoba, in the 10th century, was a center of commerce and scholarship.
Their financial capital of Mumbai will continue to be the center of commerce and prosperity".
It was San Juan that settlers chose as the island's seat of government and center of commerce.
Inevitably in Dubai, the Arab world's hardest charging center of commerce, the judgment ends up at the bottom line.
By the end of the 18th century, it was a thriving center of commerce, agriculture and lead mining.
