Just last week, the Veteran's Administration announced its commitment to build a new medical center in the city's Central Business District.
Thousands of people are said to have turned out for the march in the city's central Sisli district, which was organised by trade unions.
Ouattara went to the scene of the stampede, in Plateau, the city's central business district, Tuesday and has ordered the government to take care of the injured, his office said.
That is the problem facing the city in the old central business district.
It forms part of Atria's offices being developed by the city council in the central business district near the international conference centre.
Today, glass-and-steel commercial towers fill the city's thriving Central Business District.
His caution is also explained by the limited powers granted to the mayoralty on its creation in 2000 (the separate, ancient post of Lord Mayor concerns only the City of London, the central financial district).
Johannesburg is, to put it bluntly, a dangerous city in certain neighborhoods, including the Central Business District and ill-famed Soweto, with violent muggings and carjackings the main problems.
In America today, a house in a safe neighborhood with good public schools featuring a convenient commute to the central business district of an economically vibrant city is a scarce commodity.
More than 55, 000 people a day ride the city's main escalator, which rises from Central to the residential district of Mid-levels.
The city's population is on the rise slowly in the central business district, the French Quarter and Algiers, the neighborhood right across from the Quarter on the other side of the Mississippi River.
London's mayor, Boris Johnson, wants central swaths of the capital, including the financial district (known as the City or the Square Mile), the South Bank and the West End, completely exempted from the new rules, and has lodged an official complaint with the government.
For example, the 300-room Renaissance Zurich Tower, opened in August 2011, is a central landmark in the blossoming Zurich West district, a former industrial centre now known as the city's zone for artists, designers and musicians.
Surrey, a municipality south of the city - whose mayor was rated one of the best in the world - is becoming the second central business district for the metro Vancouver area and is linked by SkyTrain to downtown.
While you're never far from an urban vignette that contrasts with the central business district's gloss, it's best to plunge into another area of the city for more local color and flavor.
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