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Ron and some others seemed interested in the martial arts store around the corner. Run by a very nice chap. Get your Michelle Yeoh videos here. Might be a few accessories for B.O. and others who are intimidated by the patrons of "Down X" (or whatever the Mayor is calling it now.)
The door to the third floor wouldn't budge, no matter how hard I kicked it. Here is what was written on the door. "Casting Room"? Former groupies, perhaps.
Ron and some others seemed interested in the martial arts store around the corner. Run by a very nice chap. Get your Michelle Yeoh videos here. Might be a few accessories for B.O. and others who are intimidated by the patrons of "Down X" (or whatever the Mayor is calling it now.)
The door to the third floor wouldn't budge, no matter how hard I kicked it. Here is what was written on the door. "Casting Room"? Former groupies, perhaps.
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Thanks Toby. Good dog!
Though the loss of Payless and the jewelery store are certainly no biggie (a plus in my book) The barber shop and video store have kind of a quirky, urban grittyness that I like.
Oh well, that's progress and they will be there for a few more years at least.
Thanks Toby. Good dog!
Though the loss of Payless and the jewelery store are certainly no biggie (a plus in my book) The barber shop and video store have kind of a quirky, urban grittyness that I like.
Oh well, that's progress and they will be there for a few more years at least.
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The jewlery cooperative strikes me as fine "urban grit" too, especially if it's subdivided into 20+ stalls.
The jewlery cooperative strikes me as fine "urban grit" too, especially if it's subdivided into 20+ stalls.
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It would be if there weren't already 30 of them squeezed into Downtown Crossing. One or two is quirky grit. A dozen or more is blight.
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I wish I knew that barbershop was there
I wish I knew that barbershop was there
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I was in a place near Downtown Crossing that had 20+ stalls once, in the early '80s.
I was in a place near Downtown Crossing that had 20+ stalls once, in the early '80s.
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Your not missing much from a haircut point of view. I went in there once ... just once ... in the mid 1990's to get a haircut. A woman who closely resembled Gilda Radner, aka Rosanne Roseannadanna, cut my hair. Worst haircut I had that decade hands down. She was chomping on her gum so vigoursly I thought it was going to fall right into my hair at any moment. A mildly amusing moment occurred while there - a homeless guy wandered in, she gave him a dollar and he proceeded to sweep up all the hair on the floor. She went on to explain that she often has homeless help out here and there.
I'm pretty sure that type of scene will not exist in the new building.
Your not missing much from a haircut point of view. I went in there once ... just once ... in the mid 1990's to get a haircut. A woman who closely resembled Gilda Radner, aka Rosanne Roseannadanna, cut my hair. Worst haircut I had that decade hands down. She was chomping on her gum so vigoursly I thought it was going to fall right into my hair at any moment. A mildly amusing moment occurred while there - a homeless guy wandered in, she gave him a dollar and he proceeded to sweep up all the hair on the floor. She went on to explain that she often has homeless help out here and there.
I'm pretty sure that type of scene will not exist in the new building.
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I think post #34 by PaulC in this thread shows what may be under these facades.
Also Charles56ofBoston's Department store blog describes visits to this building as well:
http://shoppingdaysinretroboston.blogspot.com/
Quoting from Charles56of Boston's blog (hope you don't mind Charles):
"We would end our trip with iced teas at Neisner?s wonderful lunch counter located on the Bromfield Street side of the store. If iced tea was not in season, I had a Raspberry Lime Ricky instead. All the sodas back then were made with syrup and tasted great!
Neisner?s was a large Woolworth?s type of store built in an ?L? shape with large main doors on both Washington and Bromfield Streets. I loved to look at the toys located in the basement of Neisner?s. Neisner?s was a chain store
like Grants and Kresge?s but I liked it the best of all.
** The mid 1970?s marked the end to most of these 5 and 10 type stores in the downtown area.
Neisner?s held on until about 1977 when Wendy?s Hamburgers took the Washington Street side over.
The Bromfield Street side became Sherman?s
Electrical Supply."
I think Neisners included the Wendy's, Children's Place and City Sports buildings. Thus the Art Deco appearance in PaulC's posted photo which would be similar to City Sports.
I think post #34 by PaulC in this thread shows what may be under these facades.
Also Charles56ofBoston's Department store blog describes visits to this building as well:
http://shoppingdaysinretroboston.blogspot.com/
Quoting from Charles56of Boston's blog (hope you don't mind Charles):
"We would end our trip with iced teas at Neisner?s wonderful lunch counter located on the Bromfield Street side of the store. If iced tea was not in season, I had a Raspberry Lime Ricky instead. All the sodas back then were made with syrup and tasted great!
Neisner?s was a large Woolworth?s type of store built in an ?L? shape with large main doors on both Washington and Bromfield Streets. I loved to look at the toys located in the basement of Neisner?s. Neisner?s was a chain store
like Grants and Kresge?s but I liked it the best of all.
** The mid 1970?s marked the end to most of these 5 and 10 type stores in the downtown area.
Neisner?s held on until about 1977 when Wendy?s Hamburgers took the Washington Street side over.
The Bromfield Street side became Sherman?s
Electrical Supply."
I think Neisners included the Wendy's, Children's Place and City Sports buildings. Thus the Art Deco appearance in PaulC's posted photo which would be similar to City Sports.
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See DowntownDave's picture of the Folio development in the Rose Kennedy Greenway thread and how the development left a very small pre-existing building in place:
See DowntownDave's picture of the Folio development in the Rose Kennedy Greenway thread and how the development left a very small pre-existing building in place:
I wish they would do the same with the Payless Shoesource store building in Downtown Crossing as shown in Tobyjug's pic below. Not very likely to happen.
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I think many of DTX buildings are amazing looking and very worth preserving but this is one building that I believe should not be saved. Compared to the others down the street, this one is plain-looking.
I think many of DTX buildings are amazing looking and very worth preserving but this is one building that I believe should not be saved. Compared to the others down the street, this one is plain-looking.
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It does seem as if this building's original cornice was removed, probably back in the bad times for this area:
It does seem as if this building's original cornice was removed, probably back in the bad times for this area:
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Developer files plan for Downtown Crossing tower
Boston Business Journal - by Michelle Hillman
New York-based Midwood Management Corp. is moving forward with its plan to build a 28-story tower in Boston?s Downtown Crossing neighborhood.
In a project first announced this summer by Mayor Thomas M. Menino, Midwood plans to tear down four buildings and replace the corner with a 407,000-square-foot tower. The tower will include: 49,000 square feet of retail space in the basement and first and second floors; 192 parking spaces on the next three floors; 276 residential units as well as amenities and a lobby for residents.
The proposed tower is located at the corner of Washington and Bromfield Streets and is adjacent to the redevelopment of the former Filene?s site. Demolition of the four existing buildings ? where the current Payless Shoes is located ? is expected to begin in March of 2010. Construction is expected to last 30 months, according to the filing with the Boston Redevelopment Authority. The project is expected to cost $200 million to develop.
http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2008/11/03/daily10.html
Developer files plan for Downtown Crossing tower
Boston Business Journal - by Michelle Hillman
New York-based Midwood Management Corp. is moving forward with its plan to build a 28-story tower in Boston?s Downtown Crossing neighborhood.
In a project first announced this summer by Mayor Thomas M. Menino, Midwood plans to tear down four buildings and replace the corner with a 407,000-square-foot tower. The tower will include: 49,000 square feet of retail space in the basement and first and second floors; 192 parking spaces on the next three floors; 276 residential units as well as amenities and a lobby for residents.
The proposed tower is located at the corner of Washington and Bromfield Streets and is adjacent to the redevelopment of the former Filene?s site. Demolition of the four existing buildings ? where the current Payless Shoes is located ? is expected to begin in March of 2010. Construction is expected to last 30 months, according to the filing with the Boston Redevelopment Authority. The project is expected to cost $200 million to develop.
http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2008/11/03/daily10.html
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Grillo now writes for the Herald?
http://www.bostonherald.com/busines...town_complex_eyed/srvc=business&position=also
Grillo now writes for the Herald?
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Great another giant hole in the ground in DTX.
Flash forward two years,
"Gosh, but we were just positive the recession would be over by now and people would be throwing money at us. Guess we were wrong. Sorry about the mess. Toodles!"
Great another giant hole in the ground in DTX.
Flash forward two years,
"Gosh, but we were just positive the recession would be over by now and people would be throwing money at us. Guess we were wrong. Sorry about the mess. Toodles!"
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I think the developers are right. This is the time we start to build so that when completed, it will be right at the middle of an economic boom (or a better economic time). Haven't we complain about how developers build only to finish when the economics boom is over or how developers miss their chance when they could have built it earlier to be completed at the best possible time? Now we are just hypocritical aren't we?
I think the developers are right. This is the time we start to build so that when completed, it will be right at the middle of an economic boom (or a better economic time). Haven't we complain about how developers build only to finish when the economics boom is over or how developers miss their chance when they could have built it earlier to be completed at the best possible time? Now we are just hypocritical aren't we?
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If in a year Filene's is still a iant hole in the ground then I'll feel angry. The developers are taking a giant risk here but given how long it will take to build both towers it is a calculated one that may pay off. Or the country will go into another depression, who knows.
If in a year Filene's is still a iant hole in the ground then I'll feel angry. The developers are taking a giant risk here but given how long it will take to build both towers it is a calculated one that may pay off. Or the country will go into another depression, who knows.