"hub of commerce" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It refers to a central location or city that serves as a major center for trade and business activities. Example: "New York City has long been recognized as a hub of commerce, attracting businesses and investors from around the world."
Singapore, once swampland, is now a multicultural hub of commerce.
A small stream still flows here, but the place has become a hub of commerce of a different kind.
Morgan proposes that Buddhism benefited from this stability, but also from Bamiyan's nature as a hub of commerce.
No. It's still Ka Ching, Asian hub of commerce, come-ons and status symbols reconfigured into authentic knockoffs.
A walled city during the Mughal era (1524 1752) and British colonial rule, the city has grown as a hub of commerce and trade in the region.
Greenport, the North Fork's only incorporated village, is the hub of commerce, culture, dining and recreation (its restored merry-go-round is a big hit).
The opening of the mining industry in the early 1860s and completion (1870) of the Utah Central Railroad, connecting Salt Lake City with the Union Pacific at Ogden, along with other rail connections, made the city a thriving hub of Western commerce.
So why is this hub of international commerce, home to Africa's biggest businesses and busiest airport, trying so hard to entice travelers to linger on their way to South Africa's more scenic attractions?
The Industrial Revolution and the British Empire turned this area of old churches and ancient-sounding street names (London Wall, Blackfriars, Old Jewry) into the "Square Mile," a hub of world commerce, where lots of people came to work but not so many stayed after hours.
The area is still a hub of such commerce, but now it is much smaller, in both renown and the value of business done, than the internationally famous diamond district on 47th Street between Fifth Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas, which began taking shape around 1940.
As the forward operating station of the Mendi Mission, it was a hub of education, commerce, and cultural exchange.
