Southsea has a thriving commercial area which includes two national department stores and many other well-known high street chains.

"But these are two giants in a thriving area where it's best to let them compete," he said.

Chico's downtown is a thriving area for unique, independent retail shops and restaurants.

The Warnersville neighborhood was a once thriving area in south Greensboro.

The cost of living in the East Valley is quite low for such a thriving area.

By 1930 Indio was a thriving area and incorporated.

On its northern side Riverstone still has a large and thriving industrial area.

Today moral psychology is a thriving area of research in both philosophy and psychology, even at an interdisciplinary level.

At one time in Trenton's history this was a thriving industrial area.

No longer primarily residential, Madison Square was still a thriving area.