Sentence examples for surrounding downtown from inspiring English sources

The development of the surrounding downtown area will surely be even more riven by such debate.

Hundreds of police officers blocked traffic from surrounding downtown streets, in part to insure no disruption of the pomp.

In many cases, such episodes have prompted lockdowns of the White House and closed surrounding downtown streets.

The rest of the block and the surrounding downtown area have been similarly refurbished, including the Cliftex Theatre, the state's oldest continuously operated movie theater.

Even a fire that destroyed much of the surrounding downtown in 1986, rendering the block on which the theater stands a ghost town, did not daunt its supporters.

However, the Kuwaiti group that owns half wanted to demolish it, and build a new tower block similar to those in the surrounding downtown area.

"With all the housing stock that we have now and the demographics in the communities that surround Downtown Brooklyn," said Joseph Chan, president of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, an economic development group, "the fact that there's not a Bed Bath & Beyond, a Pottery Barn, a Pier 1 in the downtown of a city of 2.5 million people is odd".

Various residential neighbourhoods surround downtown in all directions; expansion is greatest to the south and west, although several areas remain underdeveloped.

Most of these homes are tucked up into hills and on quiet streets surrounding the downtown.

Some of the biggest questions surrounding the downtown plans concern transportation.

Brooklyn's latest historic district - a cluster of 21 skyscrapers and office buildings surrounding Borough Hall downtown - was created on Tuesday over the objections of some of its landowners and inhabitants.