The mayor is trying to attract new businesses to the inner city.
Recent Examples on the WebOn 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 The majority of services in this country are focused on the inner cities.—CBS News, 14 Jan. 2024 This is home to one of the nation’s top high school basketball powers and arguably its most unique, a roster of mostly Black kids from the inner city.—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2023
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