Thought to have once been a commercial centre for trade, only 10% of the Lost City has been excavated by archaeologists, giving it an eerie, haunted atmosphere.
Behind the autonomy proposal lies long resentment in a commercial centre at what it sees as the squandering of its wealth by metropolitan bureaucrats.
World War II brought construction to a halt, but in the 1950s, EUR was revitalised into a busy commercial and residential centre with stark, travertine buildings, axially-planned street planning and looming columns.
By the same token, a route that links Disney World, a convention centre, two airports and two of Florida's biggest cities sounds like a reasonable commercial proposition, especially when the federal government is paying most of the bill.
In Gujarat, for example, Ahmedabad, the commercial capital, is riot prone but Surat, a textile centre, is not.
The county council is already working with a commercial developer to transform the site into a hotel, heritage centre, restaurants and apartments.
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For other types of commercial property it might mean something different: a great logistics centre with a long lease, for instance, might be near a motorway and nothing much else.
South of this overwhelming commercial and entertainment centre, Tokyo begins to take on a more moneyed polish.
The capital Willemstad, settled in 1634, is the financial and commercial centre of life on the island, as well as a Unesco World Heritage Site, thanks to its well-preserved, cotton-candy-coloured Dutch Colonial architecture and buildings like the Mikve Israel Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in use in the Western Hemisphere.
He said Mayor of London Boris Johnson would work with the boroughs to develop plans that may include redeveloping land for commercial use, improving transport infrastructure in Tottenham and establishing Croydon as a retail centre.
Cycling through the Historic Centre becomes a kaleidoscopic journey, a surreal succession of sombre colonial structures, frenetic commercial activity and feathered Aztec dancers.
But even if Saadiyat succeeds in a commercial sense, that will not make it a regional let alone a global financial centre.
Blackstone , a private-equity group, added to its expanding commercial-property portfolio by joining Brookfield , a Toronto-based property firm that owns the World Financial Centre in New York, to buy Trizec Properties and its Canadian holding company.
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