He was told the idea would be pitched to Spec Research, a City of Industry, Calif. maker of PC peripherals.
But an events center and football stadium in the City of Industry will not maximize the long term economic development potential that a new facility could have upon the economics of the Los Angeles region.
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Its substantial size is a reflection of the size of the UK's financial services industry, the City of London.
The reason private equity was allowed these tax breaks is that for a long time, the Treasury - under the then chancellor Gordon Brown - believed that the buying and selling of whole companies by private equity increased the efficiency of those companies, and simultaneously created a valuable new industry for the City of London.
Italy remains at heart a collection of city-states, and much of the fashion industry's support for the arts is essentially local.
His investigation takes him to the City of London and the heart of the credit card industry.
But in the 1960s, the decline of heavy industry meant that this city, with a population of 170, 000, shed more than 40, 000 jobs.
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But now with one of the world's largest new coal finds and a growing tourist industry, the capital city of Maputo is booming.
And yet here in the heart of the city's motor industry, falling sales and redundancies are the reality.
The garment industry favours the City of Hope Medical Centre.
Mr. Berman, 44, recently combed through past phone books stored on microfilm at the New York Public Library as a way to track the growth of the city's pizza industry.
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The White House is using the economic summit to showcase Pittsburgh -- a city that President Obama says has exhibited an innovative 21st-century recovery after a well-publicized downfall following the shuttering of much of the city's steel industry.
The game, which pits a Big 12 team against a Pac-12 team, brings millions of dollars in revenue to the city of San Antonio during one of the slowest weeks faced by the tourism industry.
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Near Birmingham in Britain, for instance, the cluster of car-industry service firms that grew up when that city was a force in the industry has become an important element in the development of Formula One and other specialist vehicle businesses.
Faster than both rural areas and the cities and I think that people might find this surprising because they're used to hearing certain storylines like, for example, Detroit, like the collapse of the auto industry or the withdrawal of certain kinds of jobs from city areas, but I think most people would have assumed that those jobs, if they went anywhere, went to the suburbs.
We learned a bit of history, such as how the city washed two million pounds of soil that had been contaminated by industry and that are now clean lots for the Olympic venues.
The main industry in the southern city of Jacmel, for example, was once harvesting coffee.
Since coming back from Russia in 2008, Juan Rivera has resumed working in the construction industry in the eastern city of Santa Cruz.
Woody Tsung, head of the city's Motion Picture Industry Association, puts the main blame on video piracy, which is worse in Hong Kong than almost anywhere else on the planet.
Five of the group who died, along with one of those injured, came from the southern Russian city of Krasnodar and two of those who died worked in Italy in the tourism industry, Mr Parmonov said.
Meantime, slow-but-steady transit improvements to the area and policy changes under the new mayor made Moscow City one of the few new developments allowed to continue in the city center, say industry experts.
The financial industry boom allowed the city and the state to spend without consequence, fattened the pockets of service industry workers and led to an unfettered local real estate development boom.
In Colorado, an industry group is suing the city of Longmont over a fracking ban approved by the city's voters in November.
"These companies are becoming technology hubs, competing with Best Buy and Circuit City, " says industry consultant Shawn McBride of Ketchum Sports Marketing.
Before Katrina, the restaurant industry was one of the city's largest employers.
According to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, that city's futures industry employs 151, 000 people, directly or indirectly, and is creating those jobs at a rate 50% faster than the Chicagoan average.
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While Internet safety advocates and tech professionals were meeting at the FOSI and Qitcom events in one part of the city, eight heads of state from the Arab region, government ministers and Arab tech industry leaders were participating in the Connect Arab Summit to talk about expanding technology opportunities in the region.
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We feel a pocket of excellence for the industry and the city has been lost.
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