How to Use business district in a Sentence

business district

noun
  • The concept of a tax for a central business district isn't new.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
  • There’s not that many businesses that are in the central business district.
    — Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The central business district was brought to its (very wet) knees for an expensive three-day spell.
    — Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
  • There's a central business district.
    — Tonya Mosley, NPR, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Danville has prohibited e-bikes on sidewalks in its business district for more than a year.
    — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 23 Dec. 2025
  • There are just 134 rooms, in the middle of the central business district.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The overall dollar damage to the city’s business district was in the millions.
    — For Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2024
  • The pool on the 18th floor has a fabulous view of the central business district.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 June 2026
  • Trettevik is one of the potential board members who will be part of the new business district.
    — Carmela Karcher, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Over the next 20 years, office buildings and hotels in the central business district reached new heights.
    — Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 6 Dec. 2025
  • The sirens of police and ambulances could be heard wailing through the city’s canyon-like central business district for much of the morning.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
  • Block 216 is the largest and most expensive building in the city’s central business district in four decades.
    — oregonlive, 10 June 2023
  • The restaurant is part of a growing business district known as the Butcher Block, which is adding more late-night options.
    — Amanda Hancock, Louisville Courier Journal, 6 Feb. 2026
  • There are plans for deck parks and new pedestrian bridges to link the areas south of I-30 with the central business district.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 2 May 2023
  • Even without Musk, San Francisco’s business district is in dire straits.
    — Byjane Thier, Fortune, 17 July 2024
  • Mwangi stayed out of the Nairobi central business district on Tuesday morning, not sure how the protests would turn out.
    — Rael Ombuor, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
  • The shooting occurred on the Strip, a business district of bars and restaurants that cater to students near the Tuscaloosa campus.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The Callero family lives close to the Glenview Road business district by the library.
    — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Almost the entire section of the upper business district is gutted – restaurants, churches, the post office, and a bank.
    — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Dad's Place is zoned within the city's central business district, so people cannot eat, wash clothes or sleep at the property, the complaint reads.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The falloff is hitting retailers, restaurants and others in Port Huron’s main business district.
    — The Detroit News, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2025
  • Then, in mid-October, a large fire erupted in the city’s business district, burning for hours and injuring four people.
    — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Czerniak added the city would like to keep Post Office site within the central business district.
    — Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 3 July 2023
  • Much of al-Rimal, the city’s once vibrant business district and social epicenter, was reduced to rubble.
    — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
  • These improvements follow years of declining bus speeds in the central business district coming out of the pandemic.
    — New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
  • More than six years ago, city of Miami staffers ordered a five-phase makeover of Flagler Street to improve its business district.
    — Larry Seward, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Once a thriving business district, the neighborhood began to decline in the 1980s.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2025
  • These expressways would rapidly move large volumes of vehicles in and out of the central business district without using local roads.
    — Charlotte Observer, 11 May 2026
  • Now those towers in Dallas’ central business district sit half empty, and K&L Gates is no longer here.
    — Nick Wooten, Dallas Morning News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The attack happened in a business district of high-rise office buildings known as Moscow City, west of the Kremlin.
    — Daha Litinova and Emma Burrows, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Aug. 2023

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