Occasionally, though, while walking in the downtown shopping area, he would spot a classmate on the street.
The 39-year-old worked in marketing but quickly shifted to the art world, cofounding an influential downtown gallery while developing his own thriving career as a sound installation artist.
When the traffic backs up, it takes her at least an hour to drive the 12 kilometers downtown (while Georgetown is the built-up center, Penang island is usually regarded as one community).
The freeways make them less pleasant and less-connected to downtown, even while they reduce the cost in travel time to live further away.
Further downtown, the air is clouded with cigarette smoke while crowd control barriers line the street to help herd the fashionistas.
While the midtown restaurants aim for the more established crowd, downtown aims for the upcoming software titans in t-shirts and jeans.
Socially conscious businesses like KL Downtown are giving travellers the opportunity to do some good while on vacation.
Harris County, which includes Houston, said it had crews working to clear roads in downtown Houston, and said most streets were passable, while some were blocked because of glass and debris.
Wind-whipped whitecaps curled over the top of the flood walls near the Claiborne Avenue railroad bridge while others poured across the levee in the Gentilly neighborhood, north of downtown.
While British composer Hatch worked with Petula Clark on the international chart-topping hits Downtown and My Love in 1964 and 1965.
Yet while city government is broken, population is shrinking and many services are lacking, downtown Detroit is booming, thanks to private investment from entrepreneurs like Gilbert and Ilitch.
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And then one day while driving to work from my home in Silver Lake, a neighborhood five miles northwest of downtown, I cut through the Second Street tunnel and there he is, putting on a one-man concert in a location even noisier than the last one.
He heard the news while at dinner at the Odeon in nearby Tribeca, bought a bottle of champagne from the bartender and headed downtown.
The traffic running through downtown Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, jogs to the right as it passes the five-tiered Memorial Fountain, while the fountain's streams of water glisten like ropes of diamonds in the new light.
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