Sentence examples for historic concourse from inspiring English sources

Peshawar sits at the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, the historic concourse of invading armies since the days of Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan.

The trouble with this "Stuttgart 21" scheme is that it not only requires the demolition, starting this week, of the south wing of Bonatz's station, and the felling of 200 trees in the adjacent Schlossgarten, but it reduces the historic concourse to a meaningless architectural void, because all the important activity will take place below ground.

They are trying to stop the commercialization by creating a Concourse historic district or by enforcing more strictly a 1989 zoning law that bans stores in all but a few places and limits signs in most of those locations to 12 square feet.

Our annual conference is once again at the historic San Francisco Design Concourse this September 7 through 12.

An effort to designate the Concourse as a historic district foundered during the Dinkins and Giuliani administrations.

"You come in here and think you have a couple of minutes but run down and find the train's just not there," said Andrew Flint, 26, waiting by the historic clock in the main concourse to catch a train to New Haven on Friday.

It does not hurt that the southern corridor of the Grand Concourse between 153rd and 167th Streets was declared a historic district last year, or that the city has fixed up the Concourse's roadways and nearby parks, like Joyce Kilmer Park, named after the young poet who wrote the classic "Trees".

The Grand Central Terminal restoration, a fine balance between commerce and historic preservation, created a marketplace in the corridors of the terminal while restoring the waiting room, the concourse and rampways to glory.

But today, with the Concourse undergoing a renaissance, the city is considering designating a stretch of the road as a historic district in recognition of the area's distinctive Art Deco architecture, as well as the singular role the Concourse has played in the history of the borough.

Now the Conservancy wants to start all over again, and redo the concourse with new paving, and its plan has set off a tiff in the world of historic preservation.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Now the Conservancy wants to start all over again, and redo the concourse with new paving, and its plan has set off a tiff in the world of historic preservation.