We traced our path, following the meandering freeway through South San Francisco and into the downtown area.
About 23, 000 of the downtown area's 28, 000 hotel rooms are open, according to the convention and visitor's bureau.
With a number of roads closed, access to and from the downtown area will be largely by public transportation.
The goal of this aspect is to help foster a mobile, collaborative community of entrepreneurs in the downtown area.
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After the quake, more than 10, 000 homes were declared uninhabitable, and parts of the downtown area remain barricaded for demolition.
Flooding was seen as far south as Fort Myers, where the Caloosahatchee River overflowed its banks into the downtown area.
And yet I was recently disappointed when the last bookstore closed down in the downtown area in the last year.
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The program presents visitors with an array of colour around the downtown area and in nearby neighbourhoods like Irvington and Broad Ripple.
No small portion of that circulates in the restaurants, bars, retail stores, and parking garages around the downtown area near the arena.
The downtown area today has precious few places to park a car (and the civic architecture is most charitably described as mediocre).
Critics say Mr. Booker's achievements may have boosted the downtown area, but he has done less for neighborhoods, where poverty and violence are concentrated.
He gave new life to the downtown area with the ambitious River Relocation Project, which uncovered and redirected three rivers to form Water Place Park.
Most of the violence has been in Chicago's troubled south and west sides, but there also have been a handful of incidents in the downtown area.
Dallas-Fort Worth has several drilling rigs in the downtown area.
All the bikes were yellow, you could find them at various points downtown, and you could take them anywhere so long as you eventually returned them to the downtown area.
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On a cool autumn afternoon, midtown Manhattan looks and feels significantly different from the historic home of American financial capitalism that is located further south in the downtown area surrounding Wall Street.
After you stand on the glass floor of the CN Tower and tour the Hockey Hall of Fame (both recommended by Charles Rawlings-Way in this week's "Top 10 Toronto hotspots"), explore beyond the downtown area.
More than 1, 500 historic buildings dot the downtown area, and because the city was built atop a drained lake bed, some edifices , like the gravity-defying Ex-Teresa museum, a former 17th-century convent, are teetering like there is no tomorrow.
Most streets are now passable, and in Leogane - the town at the epicentre of the quake which has much flatter and more accessible geography than the capital - about 80% of the debris has been removed from the downtown area.
We'll go to Mississippi later in the show, but first to New Orleans where a convoy of amphibious vehicles is carrying relief supplies through the flooded streets of the downtown area, and evacuation of tens of thousands of people is under way.
Occasionally, though, while walking in the downtown shopping area, he would spot a classmate on the street.
Goldmacher notes that the downtown Atlanta area which surrounds the Georgia Dome is home to over 10, 000 hotel rooms.
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"We are on the cusp, really, of that full-speed rebuild, " he said from the high-rise city council building near the downtown disaster area.
These two main elements of the Forum are separated by a landscaped outdoor plaza, a welcome stretch of greenery in the busy downtown area.
Gerry Widdicombe, the downtown business-improvement district's economic-development director, predicts that given current trends, the downtown and surrounding area will be built out in 12 to 15 years.
But the area around Comerica itself bustles with activity nowadays, as does downtown to the south and the area around Wayne State University and the medical center north of the park.
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Located in Cambridge, a neighbourhood across the Charles River from downtown Boston, the Harvard Square area is a popular gathering spot for Harvard and MIT students, with several restaurants serving up affordable, tasty grub.
For instance, in a crowded downtown area the signal can bounce off buildings many times before it hits your antenna.
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