What's their proposal and for which area?
What's their proposal and for which area?
Why is it silly?
how about the Kenmore Hotel that was supposed to redirect traffic or something, and look like upside down gold logs that get wider as it gets higher?Worst description ever but the only name I can find is Kenmore Hotel.
It's frozen, because it's a hotel.
Also been wondering about the flower exchange
The upper floors are the Department of Children and Families, 600 Washington Street. A government agency that has been there for at least 30 years and many more to come I believe. The property is part of an investment group in Newton so it's strange that they don't rent out the first floor retail spaces. There was a Walgreens there in 2018. The first floor also has the old abandon RKO theater still in there in some form. Seriously, I've read that back stage is haunted.What's happening with the Washington Essex Building...a full block right in the center of everything (not sure what its street address is)
From Essex at Hayward, seems like (yet another) case where a land tax (high) instead of property tax (low on derelict buildings) would incentize full development of this site. (other streetviews aren't much better)
Bounded by Washington, Harrison, Hayward, Essex.
That youtube video.... was the camera hanging from the guy's belt? Some of the most puke inducing footage I've ever seen wow.The upper floors are the Department of Children and Families, 600 Washington Street. A government agency that has been there for at least 30 years and many more to come I believe. The property is part of an investment group in Newton so it's strange that they don't rent out the first floor retail spaces. There was a Walgreens there in 2018. The first floor also has the old abandon RKO theater still in there in some form. Seriously, I've read that back stage is haunted.
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The upper floors are the Department of Children and Families, 600 Washington Street. A government agency that has been there for at least 30 years and many more to come I believe. The property is part of an investment group in Newton so it's strange that they don't rent out the first floor retail spaces.
Washington St. will continue to be a pit as long as this building and Lafayette Place remain.
So you're saying that Lafayette Place is not a public blight because the INTERIOR is nice?Curious when you were last Downtown? LCC hasn't been named "Lafayette Place" since at least the 1990s--already in 2002 it had been rebranded as LCC.
It's now filled with giant tech firms--Carbonite, Sonos, VMware, etc. I cut through its lobby frequently on the way to DTX and there's good activity in it a lot. Plus, the hallway to Macy's frequently has a rotating gallery of photos hanging in it. And, there's a trendy museum opening there soon that will fill its remaining retail vacancy.
It's as if you deliberately chose a site that does more than almost anyplace else to contribute to Washington Street's vibrancy (certainly, once the museum opens), and then inverted reality and asserted it contributes the most to the street's problems.
(Also: I'd love to know how 600 Washington St. also somehow contributes to Washington Street's problems, given that I: never see homeless sheltering there; as noted above, it's filled with government agencies and thus not remotely deactivated; it's merely old, but not blighted/dilapidated, etc., etc.)
EDIT: again, since your usage of "Lafayette Place" implies you haven't been Downtown since the Clinton administration--I must ask in sincerity: are you aware that this exact stretch of Washington St., between 600 Washington and LCC, now hosts three revitalized theaters, two hotels, and several upscale restaurants obviously sited there to exploit the theater patronage?
One of those theaters hosts Broadway blockbusters, such as Hamilton, and is also the home of the Boston Ballet, and thus hosts the mega-revenue driver that is the Nutcracker. How much money do you think the Nutcracker pumps into the surrounding neighborhood each year, even if you exclude the ticket sales themselves? How much foot traffic do you think a show like that generates?
If this is a "pit," it is a pit that every. single. theater. district. in the country outside of, say, Times Square, is drooling to emulate.
So you're saying that Lafayette Place is not a public blight because the INTERIOR is nice?
(Also: I'd love to know how 600 Washington St. also somehow contributes to Washington Street's problems, given that I: never see homeless sheltering there; as noted above, it's filled with government agencies and thus not remotely deactivated; it's merely old, but not blighted/dilapidated, etc., etc.)
600 Washington Street has had a completely vacant ground floor for years, and the building is in such a state of extreme disrepair that much of the exterior ornamentation is covered in netting.
(And please don't try to claim the giant retail space that is currently under renovation to become the museum somehow constitutes "blight".)
I used to work in that building. Retail has been all but dead on the Washington Street side of it for the past 15 years or so. I remember a Quizno's in there before they all retreated south and west. Outside of the Macy's attachment, LCC provides absolutely nothing positive to the streetscape of DTX. It does provide active uses above it to get people on the streets during work hours, but itself has always felt like the end of DTX and the beginning of something else (now Theater District again).
This is a huge stretch of a singular wall-like building, and if you click down the street none of those doors contain active retail.
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