Downtown Halifax
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Downtown Halifax is the primary central business district of the Municipality of Halifax. Located on the central-eastern portion of the Halifax Peninsula, on Halifax Harbour. Along with Downtown Dartmouth, and other de facto central business districts within the Municipality, Downtown Halifax serves as the business, entertainment, and tourism hub of the region.
Downtown Halifax as from Halifax Harbour
TD Centre on Barrington and George Street.
Granville Mall is a pedestrian mall surrounded by Victorian era buildings.
Bars on Argyle Street. Downtown Halifax is home to approximately 200 restaurants and bars.
Downtown
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Downtown is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's sometimes commercial, cultural and often the historical, political, and geographic heart. It is often synonymous with its central business district (CBD). Downtowns typically contain a small percentage of a city's employment. Sometimes, smaller downtowns are surrounded by lower population densities and lower incomes than suburbs. It is often distinguished as a hub of public transit and culture.
Midtown Manhattan (foreground) in New York City is the largest central business district in the world and the most populous residential district in the Western Hemisphere.
Lower Manhattan, also known as the Financial District, New York City's original downtown, is the fourth-most populous downtown in the United States, and is often the colloquial signification of the term Downtown.
Downtown Manhattan in 1893; looking up Broadway from Barclay Street
Center City, Philadelphia, the second-most populous downtown in the United States