agreed ^^^ i miss the boston with titty bars and punk rock dives here and there
When you have a family with kids you tend to want the titty bars and rock dive bars there and not here.
"Mixed-use development" is all well and good until you start getting families who want a good night sleep right next to venues where people want to get loud at 2 am.
So, you guys would rather have the South End of the 80's, Quincy Market still filled with meat vendors that stunk up the immediate area for blocks, the Combat Zone, the Elevated by the Old Garden that put the streets in perennial semi-darkness? I remember the city of the early 60's, it was a complete dump! Frankly, I look forward to seeing Boston in 15 years and I have a feeling it ain't gonna be Assembly Row.
agreed ^^^ i miss the boston with titty bars and punk rock dives here and there
I don't want to return the city to being a total shithole, but it's so goddamned cleaned up it's 20 times more puritanical than it's been since the 18th century. I'm less and less hopeful about Boston - after visiting San Francisco for the first time, and realizing this was a city that to a newcomer looked like a place were men in jeeps with guns came in and said, "Everybody out!" and then in one fell swoop moved in 100% outsiders and abolished any neighborhood culture. The entire city - and I went all over - felt like it had been replaced by transplants. Boston is feeling more and more like that, everything appealing to generic, middle class yuppie values. It's not building in a way anywhere near close to what it needs to to keep the locals here. Yes, cities change, but SF was as emptied out a city as I've ever seen in my life. And Boston is feeling more and more like that. Pick up a copy of this wonderful book - everything in it will be familiar to you because you're from here, and everything in it is now gone, gone, gone.
Yep. I follow Anthony Sanmarco's "Lost Boston" page on Facebook, and am always astonished by the pictures of places that no longer exist. I'm lucky to remember some of these places with character, but now so much of it has become sanitized/glamorized. At the same time, a lot of that change was inevitable and even necessary for Boston to become the thriving global city that it is today. It's a tough balance, but even as we see Assembly Square style construction popping up as infill in many of the outer neighborhoods, we remain a city of triple deckers and organically defined urban squares.
So, you guys would rather have the South End of the 80's, Quincy Market still filled with meat vendors that stunk up the immediate area for blocks, the Combat Zone, the Elevated by the Old Garden that put the streets in perennial semi-darkness? I remember the city of the early 60's, it was a complete dump! Frankly, I look forward to seeing Boston in 15 years and I have a feeling it ain't gonna be Assembly Row.
None of that has anything to do with a casino however. I actually had to scroll up to remember what thread this derailment was in.
I think it had something to do with connecting Wynn to Assembly or maybe Wynn buying up properties in what was described as "a tight-knit neighborhood" by one of the local rags looking to cause a stir.
But yes, well off topic.
i was being very specific in my commentary. i absolutely do not want to return to a filthy, dangerous, dying version of boston. i do, however, like my cities to feel like cities rather than a giant gated community. a couple more strip clubs and dive bars would go a long way in that direction. as for the world becoming smaller and homogenized -- sure, no question, but i am currently in frankfurt germany (a pretty boring european city fwiw) and while there are chains here and there the unique retaurants/cafes and mom & pop operations FAR outweigh the mcdonalds and starbucks and, while the city itself is extremely clean and very very safe, there is a red light district and there's a pretty decent punk rock bar down the street from my hotel. if even boring frankfurt can pull of being both clean/safe/cosmopolitan AND retain a little grit, i don't see why boston shouldn't aspire to the same.
East Broadway is a short walk from assembly, It's recently been cleaned up and still seems local, with no chains but good food and local bars. Better choices for food than anything you'll find in Assembly. Worth remembering that they didn't level anything to build Assembly, it's better that the wasteland that was there before! Anyway, casino, build the bridge!!
East Broadway is a short walk from assembly, It's recently been cleaned up and still seems local, with no chains but good food and local bars. Better choices for food than anything you'll find in Assembly. Worth remembering that they didn't level anything to build Assembly, it's better that the wasteland that was there before! Anyway, casino, build the bridge!!
The entire city of Everett is in a massive Building transformation. It seems right now WYNN development has ignited the city into massive building of condos everywhere thoughout the city.
Everett has officially changed---possibly for the better for the short-term. Real estate is booming in this city.
Any statistical evidence or source for this "massive building of condos everywhere through out the city?"