Sentence examples for significant downtown from inspiring English sources

RPI has acquired several significant downtown properties, such as the Gurley and Rice buildings and Proctor's Theater, and renovated them to make homes for programs such as its Lighting Research Center, now housed in Gurley.

"Our address has become more significant because downtown Manhattan is now an international place," he said.

"You talk to major employers in the city of New York and they will tell you, when they talk candidly, that they've moved most of the employees that they can out of the city because it's a very expensive place," said Lawrence F. Graham, executive vice president of Brookfield Financial Properties, which owns the World Financial Center and is a significant player downtown.

Another said there was "significant damage" to downtown.

They estimate its direct economic impact at $12 million a year and say that the planned library has already lured several significant developments to downtown.

The protestors are now in control of a significant part of downtown Kiev, around which they have erected barricades against further police incursion.

Approximately 30 million square feet of office space was either permanently or temporarily taken out of action by the terrorist attack -- eroding the economic rationale for a significant portion of downtown Manhattan's housing stock.

In the 1960's, a significant chunk of downtown New Rochelle was declared an urban renewal district to make way for the New Rochelle Mall, which closed in 1992 and sat empty until New Roc City, an entertainment and retail complex, opened on the site last fall.

This SNR gain is significant for GPS downtown positioning, tunnel positioning and even indoor positioning where the current GPS signal is too weak to detect.

This particular type of earthquake is especially hazardous to tall buildings, which could lead to significant fatalities in downtown areas.

In addition to industrial growth, the 1880s and 1890s were a period of significant growth in downtown commercial building.