1.   As examples of investment outside the downtown core, the mayor pointed to projects under way or expected to start in the next six months near Newark International Airport.

2.   As downtown redevelopment progressed, the homeless have been pushed westward from the downtown core and into a smaller and smaller area.

3.   Downtown cores in Japan are beehives well into the evening, with office workers working late and shoppers reluctant to return to relatively small homes.

4.   He was referring to the only section of the downtown core that is still undeveloped.

5.   In Dallas, Post has invested heavily in a neighborhood adjacent to the downtown core.

6.   PNC Park, the home of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team, opened this season near the downtown core.

7.   The mall has stood as a symbol of a failed urban renewal project that has sapped life from the downtown core.

8.   Lights were on in many stores, and traffic signals in the downtown core were again functioning.

9.   Seattle, which has already paved most of its downtown core, is taking a different tack.

10.   The downtown core of the city was eerily still Thursday.