This is a news article about the city of Glasgow. What does the bold part mean?
There was an economic return for being part of 1990, and that in turn created jobs, but that was a short-term impact which you would expect for so much activity going on.
In 1990 Glasgow was the official 'European City of Culture'. The sentence is referring to taking part in the special activities of that year.
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