Sentences with phrase «declining urban center»

The colors began to appear in the 1970s, and many suspect this was done to cheer up a declining urban center.

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As big - box malls decline, business seems to be returning to the small shops in Kingston and other urban centers, with buildings being sold at prices no one could have imagined even five years ago.
The researchers mapped thousands of star clusters in the attractive barred spiral galaxy M83 (shown), 15 million light - years from Earth, finding that the percentage of young stars in clusters declines from the urban core to the suburbs: Four thousand light - years from M83's center, 19 % of young stars belong to clusters, whereas 13,000 light - years out, just 7 % do.
The decline of schools in the urban centers of America continues, and a national call to arms is being sounded.
Downtown San Diego was in decline in the 1960s and 1970s, but experienced some urban renewal since the early 1980s, including the opening of Horton Plaza, the revival of the Gaslamp Quarter, and the construction of the San Diego Convention Center; Petco Park opened in 2004.
The high cost of land and construction in major urban centers like New York and Los Angeles has helped save industrial landlords from the mistakes common to office, retail and residential developers — overbuilding when demand is high, which forces rents down when it declines.
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