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Accessibility will be improved in terms of holding meetings and being more openly visible to the community. It will be a great addition to the downtown and a cornerstone for the Garlic Festival and the city.

It's just as convenient for us to come to them. Our office is near downtown Dallas, so for them to get there from Plano can be quite a haul.

It seems like the downtown is kind of reviving and we can be in an area with other businesses so we can benefit from each other's customer base.

It's exciting to race on Reno's downtown streets, ... There are a lot of challenges such as manhole covers, curbs and painted lines, so it's easily the most technical track we'll race on. The fans can get up close and personal to the action so that makes it one of a kind.

It's a very appropriate location to consider a variance, given the fact that mayor has come out with statement he wants 25,000 residential units in the downtown area. Simple math would suggest if you're going to try to achieve that goal, you're going to have to do a lot of tall buildings.

It wasn't just the stadium. It was attracting employers and businesses into downtown. The downtown area needs to look nice.

It was surprising to see how many ghost stories downtown Nashville had. Kim tried to pick places that were fun to go to. You don't want to go to the haunted McDonald's.

It will be a regional draw as well as a convenient attraction for all the new downtown residents.

It was intended to keep the heavy truck traffic out of downtown but we don't want people to stay away as well.

It's a way for us to define what values and goals we feel are most important for the downtown area.

It's a world-class city with a beautiful downtown ballpark that's done this kind of thing before, ... There's plenty of hotel space. All that was the reason why we got the World Baseball Classic. It had little to do with me.

It's a constant, constant effort for existing (shopping) centers to remain competitive. The history of these big downtown malls has not been all that good.

It's a combination of community folks, people in particular from downtown and stakeholders in that particular neighborhood, and city staff.

It really has to do mostly with conversions and with projects (in) downtown (San Diego). The conversions and the projects downtown that were recently completed have large standing inventories. As a result, they are giving concessions.

It's a high traffic area. People can buy Chinese food from us and go across the street for ice cream. We were looking for a site for the takeout. It's a downtown area with a lot of traffic.

It's not like downtown is doing horrible but everything around us is doing great. I mean, they're vacant in Centerville and Beavercreek and other places and north of town at the same level we're vacant. So it's a regional problem, it's not just downtown.

It's like downtown LA has been in a vacuum for the last quarter-century. The core has been ignored. But now the time for downtown has come. ... We saw solid fundamentals there - a huge opportunity in new urban housing.

It's kind of like the old style. It's not uptown and downtown Shreveport,

It makes me sick. What is this? A power struggle? And you are slowing progress downtown because of it? Somebody who has real sincerity about moving the city forward would not have done that.

It's like taking downtown Long Beach and putting it next to Staples Center and building it all in one shot,

It's a very charming community, ... They are doing a great job here, preserving the downtown and unearthing these historical buildings.

It's basically bulging. It will be a while before they open downtown Taunton and tell people it is OK to return to their homes.

It's basically bulging, ... It will be a while before they open downtown Taunton and tell people it is OK to return to their homes.

It's been pointed out that this is what students spend downtown in a night. I know people who have had to drop out of school because they just can't afford (the cost).

It's pretty accessible to hop over to Main Street. Or a little further jaunt downtown to some of the bars there, like Nicholson's or Bella.

It's unfair and I feel bad for them. I don't think anyone downtown thought that anyone would get hurt from this (open enrollment). I believe any student athlete who transfers because of open enrollment, which was OK'ed by the school board, should be allowed to play.

It's unbelievable what's happening here, ... We have problems all over the city, flooding all over downtown and every other part of the city.

Danny, our massage therapist, also conducts yoga, kick-boxing and power walks around downtown D.C. every day.

Dallas being a major metropolitan city that it is, I think, was just a couple years behind other cities in downtown condo high rises. We've looked a number of things within this market, but this is the only one now.

Construction is under way and interest is strong for both of our towers. The Pinnacle at City Park South will be among Denver's most elegant high-rise communities, with a tremendous park-side location and incredible views of downtown Denver and the mountains.

The next big milestone we are heading for now is proving self-driving is possible in traffic. Our goal at Stanford is to be able, within the next two years, to drive from downtown San Francisco to downtown Los Angeles with 100 percent autonomy--without any human intervention whatsoever.

The new vessel will allow us to provide luxurious amenities for our customers to enjoy. These are exciting times for Horseshoe Casino and with a new facility, we will be able to offer our customers an enhanced gaming experience and exceptional entertainment in a world-class gaming facility just minutes from downtown Chicago.

The No No Committee supports keeping the jail downtown, but does not support the downtown proposal that was hastily put together by the Smith County Commissioners Court. Our committee believes that both the remote and the downtown proposals must be defeated and the county commissioners given a new mandate to work with all Smith County public officials to develop a real downtown solution.

That's about what the square footage is in downtown apartments.

It's not going to happen overnight, ... But I think you're going to be seeing some major changes in downtown Waynesburg.

It's not going to be a pure farmer's market. On different days you can get different things. It's not a real big market. The concept is so nice because if you're working in an office building downtown and you want to run across and grab some fruit, it's close by.

Economic development is a numbers game. (Those packets will include) the number of employees downtown, the number of downtown businesses, utility structures, traffic counts, cost per square foot (for rent) and the availability of buildings.

Everyone forgets there was a real view that downtown could just be hollowed out and nobody would want to be there ever again, ... And we decided that we had to move quickly...to give people hope so they don't get stuck in their head I got to go somewhere else.

Everyone has half a pie now and can't do anything until they have a whole pie. With this deal, you're really bringing downtown to the river in two major ways. It's incredibly exciting.

Everybody's on board. It's all coming together. Downtown needs to know we're serious. We are, and people are taking notice.

The board's first thought was, 'well no, balconies do not fit in downtown Wichita. We're not New Orleans and they have not been part of our streetscape.' And I think we arrived at a rather acceptable compromise -- we're going to have some very narrow, 18-inch balconies.

That has to be built out so that downtown can thrive. The worst thing that could happen to lower Manhattan would be for that hole in the ground to exist for another decade or two, and that's what Silverstein has contemplated even if all goes according to his plan.

That is probably the primo of all the opportunity places we could get. We will have a downtown center that will be well artistically represented.

That is our goal - to bring enough people downtown. We hope to have 10,000 people downtown if we promote it properly.

That is why we're doing the most comprehensive transportation study ever on our downtown area,

Take downtown Seattle for example, where there seems to be condo projects springing out of the ground everywhere. The same thing's happening in downtown Spokane.

It's important for us to have a major presence and visibility in downtown Dallas. By consolidating our downtown locations, we will bring together 1,600 employees to serve our customers more efficiently and conveniently from one central location.

It's a matter of working out the logistics so that all our member casinos can buy in and support it. From what I understand, Champ Car has been meeting with downtown casinos to make that happen.

It's a matter of addressing where there are high concentrations of businesses. Caledonia Street should be considered equally with downtown because both depend on access to stores without people crawling over banks of snow. We ask business owners to clean their sidewalks in 24 hours. I support that, but it's difficult to answer their complaints when snow piles up on the curbs in front of their businesses.

It's an aggressive slate of projects this year. Our construction focus is comprehensive, including industrial, downtown and rural areas.

It's an ad campaign that speaks not only to where we play right downtown in the heart of Oklahoma City, but ultimately where we hope to be in the hearts of fans in Oklahoma City.

It's hard for me to believe that in a city of nearly 3 million people you can shoot someone down in broad daylight in downtown during lunch time and get away with it.

It's different, when you have a downtown like you do and the buy in from the city. We're a district that's off to the side.

It's difficult to overstate the impact this has had on the community. We've taken on tons of projects in downtown that might not have been done otherwise. It's created a big spin-off of retail activities.

It was one of the great fires in Galesburg's downtown history.

It's what the downtown area needs. A bit more culture. The advent of a culture center could benefit us greatly.

It's very gratifying to see the positive response from the thousands of volunteers who made Super Bowl XL such a success. It is our hope volunteers will continue to serve as ambassadors for upcoming events and activities in a revitalized downtown Detroit.

It took 50 women to disappear from the downtown Eastside (in Vancouver) before anybody did anything.

It will really be a valuable thing for the downtown ... a genuine community center.

It will put people downtown and push people out into the county.

They were targeting individuals downtown as they left the bar.

They were taken voluntarily downtown to be questioned to get their input as far as what happened right here. They are cooperating. They want to cooperate as far as what happened to their daughter.

They wouldn't run away when dogs were attacking them. They literally were hanging around the houses, and around the school, right in the downtown part of the community,

There used to be a lot more of the mom-and-pop stores downtown. Now there are only a couple left. The downtown has really changed. People want to be able to park in front of the business they are going to; they don't want to park on the next block, especially our older customers.

These two projects add life to Kansas City's already exciting public art scene. The vitality and energy of this work will energize downtown Kansas City for years to come.

The negotiations are not finalized, but it's in the Downtown Master Plan, but in draft form.

The need for parking in that part of downtown has not been clearly demonstrated.

Anytime there are big events going on downtown for people from other areas to take part in, that's good for Chicago. People are always looking for even more things to do, like our show.

Everywhere I turned, Prince Charles seemed to be this weekend - near my house in Berkeley then a few blocks away from my work in downtown San Francisco.

The cost overruns for the Big Dig look outrageous to us now ... but many big projects of the past have cost much more than the original estimates, ... (But) cities really don't have much choice. Americans have chosen to live in cities; we have no choice but to keep them livable. And despite the enormous headaches that Bostonians are experiencing now ... in 20 years they're going to be proud as hell, because they'll have the most beautiful and livable downtown in the country.

I'm a contractor. I need to be downtown pulling a permit for a job right now, and we have several other things we need to do, so my day's shot.

Information can be useful if you can do something with it. If your commute goes across the American Legion Bridge, there aren't that many other options -- you can go through downtown Washington or you can swim. We don't recommend swimming.

In Kentucky, it's everything. Our homecoming is during basketball season. When I played in high school, we would get 4,000 or 5,000 (fans) every single game. We had to play in a downtown arena. We couldn't play in our own high-school gym.

In a lot of ways it's been like a dream come true for us. The theater is designed in a really neat way because it invites people to a downtown experience. It's more of a theater that would accommodate a night out on the town, compared to the cookie-cutter model of some of the commercial development chains.

I know we want to keep downtown tuned into it. We want the restaurants and the shops and the downtown to benefit as well.

I like Downtown and would like to build more Downtown. But a lot of it depends on the economy. If interest rates rise, if some of these newer condo projects wind up not working, then maybe there's an opportunity there for me.

I'm from Chicago. I'm a little more biased. I like the United Center. I like the convenience of the downtown area.

In downtown Manhattan, maybe five acres would be worth that much. But down here, it's a bunch of marshland.

In this regard, downtown Detroit, including its cultural, entertainment and recreational amenities, is an asset that currently falls well short of its potential.

Instead of just having a static exhibit, why not just put it all over downtown and get people down here?

Instead of the downtown dying, it actually flourished. It kept more people from driving over the Grade (to shop).

In order to leverage the portion of money received from private funding with the $400,000 Community Development Block Grant, the state wanted progress that would pull the pool and park area into the downtown Revitalization process.

I remember ... how crazy this place was. I kind of got my first taste. We went downtown and saw everybody going nuts. That's really the first time I got a taste of this rivalry and what it means to everybody.

I remember the first time I went out on the street to shoot pictures. I was in downtown Philadelphia, and I just took a walk and started making contact with people and photographing them, and I thought, 'I love this. This is what I want to do forever.' There was never another question.

I know full well that the discussion on this issue and any passage of any type of ordinance will take months of discussion and massaging in order to meet the needs of our merchants. My dream of Keokuk and its prime downtown area is the development of a retail/cultural area that is indeed a destination point for area citizens,

In the next five years, there is going to be a big visual difference in downtown, we believe. We want to return the charm to downtown Warren. We want to get Warren back to where we all remember it.

If your job is in the outer beltway of Houston, living downtown becomes less appealing.

In addition to providing Hartford visitors with a new first-class hotel facility, the Marriott Hartford Downtown created over 200 new jobs for local residents and will make an ongoing, significant, positive impact to many areas of the local economy.

If there was a way that trucks could avoid having to make pick-ups and deliveries during the periods of highest traffic congestion, we would do so. The costs of congestion are enormous for the trucking industry. All our trucks have lights on them. Delivery schedules are not established by the trucking industry. Our customers ? in this case the businesses located in the downtown core ? dictate when and where our trucks pick-up and deliver goods. The problem is, and has always been, that few businesses in the core are 24/7 enterprises. They need to be convinced to take on the additional cost of having staff available to receive or load goods during off-peak times.

I just cringe to think what the average tourist would think of our downtown after visiting St. Louis Centre. If I see conventioneers down here asking where to shop, I never send them to St. Louis Centre.

By making access through the downtown area easier for local traffic, it will hopefully limit the need to excessively widen the interstate when that point comes.

By identifying those contaminants, we take out those question marks. Sometimes people put off coming downtown and assembling land because of the concern over contaminants. We are going to make it easier to attract developers downtown.

Being able to host Florida downtown at the Jacksonville Baseball Grounds is big. I really appreciate ( Florida head coach) Pat McMahon agreeing to play us here. It's a great opportunity for our kids and our people to be able to host a team the caliber of Florida . It should be a great matchup. It will definitely be a measuring stick for our program.

Christa is one of several downtown property owners converting upper stories to housing.

Churchill Downs is excited to bring the Kentucky Derby post-selection show to Derby fans, downtown workers and residents, and visitors to our community at Fourth Street Live.

But you always like to look at what your options are, and here we have an opportunity to have an office of our own in a downtown as vibrant as Charlotte's.

Hilton is excited to introduce another outstanding property in St. Louis' bustling downtown district. Adjacent to the brand-new Busch Stadium, the hotel offers amenities and services designed to help visitors to the downtown area experience success and renewal during their stay, whether visiting loved ones, going to a baseball game, or attending a meeting.

I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.

By selling suburban (office) properties, we can create the resources to help us invest in additional downtown properties. We think the central business districts will make a comeback.

But we are lucky compared to those in Gulfport and other parts of Slidell and downtown New Orleans.