The mayor is trying to attract new businesses to the inner city.
Recent Examples on the WebBased on the book by Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place is a TV mini-series that takes place in an inner city housing project building and its surrounding community.—Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 16 Feb. 2024 At the time, violent gangs that had formed on the streets of American inner cities were beginning to surface in Honduras.—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024 On this occasion, those deemed eligible to vote came from the inner city, where fewer people are likely to drive SUVs.—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 5 Feb. 2024 Freddie was in Washington D.C., living down the street from a community center where a non-profit group was helping kids from the inner city, kids who were slipping through the cracks, toward dark places.—Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Jan. 2024 This is a world where anything seems possible, which seems quite bracing given the way that the inner city, particularly in New York, was depicted in the early 1980s.—Vulture, 15 Sep. 2023 A lot of kids don’t have a two-parent household, especially in the inner city.—The Indianapolis Star, 31 Jan. 2024 Good Times, however, focused on a family struggling with poverty in the inner city, providing a different perspective.—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 8 Feb. 2024 The eligible voters are those who live in the inner city and are less likely to drive SUVs than their suburban neighbors.—Karla Adam, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2024
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