Skid Row is widely regarded as the greatest obstacle to the rebuilding of a first-class downtown in Los Angeles.
(As is often the case with this first-class downtown company, the expert set design by Mimi Lien incorporates the audience; we sit on chairs upholstered in bland, synthetic white fabric and are made to feel like attendees at a shareholder meeting being presided over by a particularly ruthless chief executive).
The 2012 withdrawal by artist Jaume Plensa of his world-class, downtown sculpture (along with its $2.5 million funding from Capitol Broadcasting President and CEO Jim Goodmon) comes immediately to mind.
St. Claude Avenue, which experienced light flooding after Katrina, traverses a struggling, working-class downtown neighborhood; Magazine Street serves middle- to upper-class uptown neighborhoods and suffered no flooding; Carrollton Avenue traverses both middle-class and working-class neighborhoods and suffered extreme flooding in some areas, some flooding in most areas, and none in others.
My roommate and I live off-campus, and my classes are downtown in the Loop.
Many cities offer free classes at downtown parks, and your bedroom might work in a pinch.
Several weeks ago, when Alicia Welsh joined a sewing class in downtown Manhattan, she found she had stumbled on a novel form of psychotherapy.
Having an investor with a youthful outlook helps, since youth is basic to fashion, and explains why Proenza Schouler has stayed at the front of a class of downtown darlings that emerged a decade ago.
Sunil Verma, 40, a Hindu who lives in Hastings-on-Hudson and works as a systems manager preparing financial plans for department stores, met his American wife, Cara, at a salsa dance class in downtown Manhattan.
She also rents a Prius or a Ford Escape on campus to attend swing dancing class in downtown St . Louis to pick up friends at the airport and take her dormitory mates grocery shopping.
