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  • The growth in technology businesses that has boosted the San Francisco office market has spilled over into a blighted six-block stretch of Market Street that until now has missed out on most booms in the city's commercial-property valuations.

    Tech Meets the Tenderloin Maura Webber Sadovi 2011

  • UGI Utilities Inc., a unit of UGI Corp. of King of Prussia, Pa., which provides natural gas to the neighborhood, monitored a six-block area around the blast site to be sure there were no risks, according to spokesman Joseph Swope.

    Rubble of Explosion Is Combed for Clues Kris Maher 2011

  • As you follow an 18th-century tour guide and the light of a lantern, you'll hear mysteries, legends and folklore of Old Town along a six-block, hour-long walk that ends in a graveyard.

    Going Out Guide: Halloween ghost tours Post 2010

  • Meanwhile, sales-tax receipts in the second fiscal quarter of this year from businesses in a six-block stretch of Haight Street up to Whole Foods brought in $181,901.32, or 0.58% of the city's total receipts, according to the Comptroller's Office.

    Hopes Dim for a Haight Street Lift Ian Sherr 2011

  • Here's what the City's Web site has to say: The Fulton Mall is a six-block pedestrian mall on the site of Fresno's historic "Main Street."

    Charles A. Birnbaum: Modernism, Fresno and the Future of a City's Heart Charles A. Birnbaum 2010

  • That neighborhood includes, within a six-block radius, War Memorial Opera House, Herbst Theatre, Davies Symphony Hall and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music—all venues SFJazz has used for performances.

    Building Jazz Its Own Home Larry Blumenfeld 2011

  • Here's what the City's Web site has to say: The Fulton Mall is a six-block pedestrian mall on the site of Fresno's historic "Main Street."

    Charles A. Birnbaum: Modernism, Fresno and the Future of a City's Heart Charles A. Birnbaum 2010

  • Following a six-block descent, at the far end of the circuit riders faced a series of 90-degree corners before the climb.

    Daniel Holloway wins 2010 U.S. professional criterium championship 2010

  • Strong winds and heavy rain pounded parts of the Northeast on Saturday, leaving more than 100,000 without power in New Jersey, where a boom crane at an Atlantic City casino construction site tipped over, scattering debris over a six-block area and injuring a police officer.

    Storms Wreak Havoc on East Coast The Associated Press 2010

  • Armory Square, a six-block area of railroad era warehouses and small hotels that have been gradually renovated since the 1980s, is overflowing with restaurants, cafes, local stores, offices and assorted businesses.

    F. Kaid Benfield: Village Green: Reviving the Post-Industrial City 2010

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