Word: downtowner
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Alas, I found no such variety. What I found instead was an increasingly homogenous and media-saturated country, one utterly devoid of places with real individuality. We drove through town after town, always seeing the same thing: a depressed downtown area dotted with closed shops and "For Sale" signs and an area on the outskirts of town where Wal-Mart, Taco Bell and other such stores existed in all their banal, sterilized splendor. There was a stretch in Minnesota and Wisconsin where there were definitely more Pizza Huts than grocery stores...
...downtown areas of all these towns and cities were once bustling centers of local commerce, replete with local stores and an individual character. Now those centers are modern-day ghost towns, with all the consumers having fled to the gold rush of national chain stores on the outskirts of town...
During his tenure as mayor, Flynn was supposed to attend a tree-lighting ceremony in downtown Boston that would be witnessed by thousands of people...
...darkest scenarios, however, envisions a powerful storm of Category 4 or higher making a direct hit on a major city like New Orleans or Miami. Surprisingly, hurricane researchers now consider one of the most vulnerable targets to be downtown New York City. They made the discovery by accident, in the course of a routine storm-evacuation study begun in 1990 by the Army Corps of Engineers, the kind of study done for every large community on the nation's hurricane-prone coasts. "We were all shocked," says Allan McDuffie, the Corps' study manager...
...then projected on giant screens during the show--a canny bit of marketing that appeals to the fans' civic pride. Buffett rides by the Heinz 57 factory, rows up the river on a mahogany scull, goofs around with some preschoolers and winds up at Kenny B.'s Eatery, a downtown Cuban-American diner...