For several decades downtown Elbing included only a grocery / hardware store, a gas station / garage, a Post Office, and a grain elevator.

Today the garage and grain elevator are the only downtown businesses.

On the morning of October 25, 2005, the grain elevator in downtown Vernon Center, filled with some 200, 000 bushels ( 5, 000 metric tons ) of corn, exploded, injuring six people.

View of Halifax before the 1917 explosion, looking toward the industrial north end from downtown, from grain elevator towards Acadia Sugar Refinery, c. 1900

He supported his mother and the rest of his family as a partner in Patterson and Vollmer, a hay, grain, wood and coal supply store, at the corner of Shattuck Avenue and Vine Street near a fire station north of downtown Berkeley.

The town is also served by a rail trail along a former CN Rail line, connecting Collingwood to the towns of Owen Sound and Barrie, with a spur heading north through the town's central business district, to the large grain elevators at the downtown wharf, where trains would formerly load and unload onto ships.

This went against the grain of what was popular in Los Angeles clubs at the time, but they did perform regularly around town and on radio, most notably at The Museum Of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles.

During the course of the drive to downtown NYC, he mentioned the name of a company, Colorado Milling, a leading operator of grain elevators.

A new elevator was installed, but oriented so it would not be easily seen from downtown Birmingham.

The Marina City complex was designed in 1959 by architect Bertrand Goldberg and completed in 1964 at a cost of $ 36 million financed to a large extent by the union of building janitors and elevator operators, who sought to reverse the pattern of white flight from the city's downtown area.

Their plan was not accepted in Haverhill, which chose to demolish much of its historic downtown, including entire swaths of Merrimack Street, River Street, and Main Street.

In September 2008, Senator John McCain started his presidential campaign in downtown Cedarburg the day after he accepted the nomination at the Republican National Convention.

Located right next to downtown Austin, Texas, The Erwin Center is generally accepted to be Austin's current premier venue for large public and private events.

Furthermore, Slovak daily newspaper SME recalled that Figeľ in 2001, while Bratislava's Old City district Mayor was his party colleague Andrej Ďurkovský, accepted from this Bratislava district an apartment in downtown Bratislava for almost nothing ( 156 sq meters for 54. 390 SKK, 1. 800 €).

A month after Scourby returned to Brooklyn, he was accepted as an apprentice at Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre on 14th Street in downtown Manhattan.

While Jack Tafari and the group vehemently resisted the location on grounds that it was too far from downtown, they eventually accepted the compromise as an acknowledgment of their legitimacy as a community.

Tickets were accepted on all RTD routes at all times, and could also be purchased at various locations around the region, although RTD buses accepted cash everywhere except when departing from the downtown terminal.

The downtown store continues to offer the great inducement of variety, both within its gates and across the street, where other department stores are immediately convenient for the shopper who wants to see what is available before making up her mind.

On June 5, 2009 the city of Gainesville, Florida, officially renamed and dedicated its downtown plaza the Bo Diddley Community Plaza.

Throop Polytechnic Institute, Pasadena, Calif, 1908, on its original campus at downtown Pasadena.

After heading south through downtown Port-au-Prince, it travels west through the capital ’ s western boroughs and then through Petit Goâve and Aquin to its terminus at Avenue des Quatre Chemins in Les Cayes.

The town of Hilversum has put a great deal of effort into improvements, including a recent renovation to its central train station, thorough renovation of the main shopping centre ( Hilvertshof ), and development of new dining and retail districts downtown including the " vintage " district in the Leeuwenstraat.

It was the dominant template for downtown development in Oklahoma City from its inception through the 1970s.

In March 2012, downtown Kansas City was selected as one of America's best downtowns by Forbes magazine for its rich culture in arts, numerous fountains, upscale shopping and various local cuisine – most notably barbecue.

The Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri has its headquarters at Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral, downtown.

This side also contains Lansing's downtown area, though this neighborhood is often included as an area all its own.

In May 2009 Sparrow announced that it now has its own helicopter service based at its downtown Lansing hospital's new $ 2. 5 million helipad.

By mid-1977 in downtown New York, punk rock was already ceding its cutting-edge status to the anarchic sound of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and Mars, spearheads of what became known as No Wave, although several original punk bands continued to perform and new ones emerged on the scene.

Banco Gallego, a banking institution owned by Novacaixagalicia, has its headquarters in downtown rúa do Hórreo.

In downtown Pittsburgh, the company moved to its own freestanding location approximately one block from its former home on the fourth floor in the downtown Gimbel's flagship.

Saks closed its 60 year-old downtown Pittsburgh location on March 17, 2012.

Besides its main campus at University Park, USC also operates the Health Sciences Campus about northeast of downtown.

Under King, the college was moved from its original location in downtown Muskogee to a larger campus on lands donated by Pleasant Porter.

In 1901 the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba changed the University Act so that the university could do its own teaching, and in 1905 a building in downtown Winnipeg became its first teaching facility with a staff of six science professors.

The difference in temperature between an inner city and its surrounding suburbs is frequently mentioned in weather reports, as in " downtown, in the suburbs ".

To supplement its Entrepreneurship Program, the Business School launched, in June 2012, an entrepreneurship lab in downtown Manhattan, an incubator space for entrepreneurs.

On October 9, 1871 a fire swept through the city of Urbana, Illinois, south of Chicago, destroying portions of its downtown area.

* Michigan State Capitol " Middle Village / Town ", where downtown Lansing now stands, was the last of the three villages to develop in 1848 with the completion of the Michigan Avenue bridge across the Grand River and the completion of the temporary capitol building which sat where Cooley Law School stands today on Capitol Avenue in between Allegan and Washtenaw Streets, and finally the relocation of the post office to the village in 1851.

Prices for downtown apartments have increased by about ten times over the last decade.

There has been considerable development of office parks along E18, especially around Lysaker in the last 20 – 30 years, reducing some of the pressure on downtown areas of Oslo.

The freeway ( termed a highway or expressway in Massachusetts ) ends at a rotary with Route 127 in Gloucester, and the last bit of Route 128 is a surface road that bypasses downtown Gloucester to the northeast.

The last part of the highway opened up on September 22, 1978, running it through Emanuel County, Candler County, and Bulloch County completing the connection between downtown Macon and Savannah.

The last fort in the immediate area of what is now downtown Pittsburgh was named Fort Lafayette and was located further up the Allegheny River.

The last sections left were on the east side of downtown.

The city's original downtown area, located on the James River waterfront, changed rapidly from a farm trading town to a new city in the last quarter of the 19th century.

The Galveston-Houston Electric Railway began operating an interurban between those cities on December 5, 1911, and last ran on October 31, 1936, though the Houston Electric Company, operator of Houston's city transit system, continued to run trains on the portion between downtown and Park Place.

One of the last wooden flagpoles from the American Civil War era is located at the historic courthouse in downtown Blakely.

On August 14, 1936, downtown Owensboro was the site of the last public hanging in the United States.

Not having suffered from the last wars, Troyes has a high density of old religious buildings grouped close to the downtown area.

Property values in Southgate have skyrocketed in the last few years, and its close proximity to downtown, beaches, and shopping makes it a very desirable place to live.

The Central House ( Orangeville, Illinois ) | Central House hotel and the People's State Bank ( Orangeville, Illinois ) | People's State Bank were the first and last commercial buildings built in downtown Orangeville.

The People's State Bank was the last major commercial building constructed in historic downtown Orangeville.

Michigan City is a major stop along the South Shore Line, one of the last interurban rail lines in the U. S. The train runs directly through on 11th Street ( it has no separate right-of-way, and shares the street with automobiles and other road traffic ), making two stops in Michigan City's downtown area ( 11th Street and Carroll Avenue ).

They requested that U. S. Route 60 remain on its original 1926 downtown route ( from West Virginia bridge on 34th Street, then turning right on Oakland Avenue then onto Louisa Street and then Center Street to the last underpass ).

When signage for U. S. 23 Business and U. S. 60 were finally removed from downtown, the entire stretch from 36th Street to the last underpass was signed as Ky. Route 3294.

Now, downtown Lisbon Street offers the office of Lewiston Auburn Magazine, Captive Elements Art House, Kimball Street Gallery, Forage Market, The Vault, Gallery 5, Marche, Niky's and is home to both the Lewiston Auburn Film Festival and the last Friday of the month Art Walks.

On September 30, 1981, the last baseball game was played at Metropolitan Stadium ( Kansas City Royals 5, Twins 2 ) as the Twins and Vikings moved to the newly constructed Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis.

Among the commercial downtown landmarks are the town's original movie house, the Narberth Theater, now a double-screen theater ; Ricklin's Hardware Store ; Mapes ' Five and Ten, now with two locations and the last of area's independent variety stores ; and The Greeks Bar and Restaurant.

Although the last several decades have brought a higher percentage of visitor-oriented retail stores, the downtown still retains a U. S. post office, banks, restaurants, and a barber shop.

During the fall, rifle and bow hunting draw many visitors, as does the annual downtown merchants ' Beef-a-Rama held the last Saturday in September.

Every summer on the last Saturday of August, Shippensburg holds the Corn Festival, an event that brings regional artisans and vendors to operate stands downtown.