Sad day in the Financial District

[statler]

Times added out door seating on the Greenway

This is good and bad. The outside seating is nice and give some vibrancy to the area at night, but that exposed party wall the "patio" butts up against is a crime. Currently, it is too far away to really be considered 'on' the Greenway. The patio should be built on with an addition to the Times, then a new patio installed where the ginormous sidewalk is and a new sidewalk installed in place of one of the road lanes. Thus pushing the patio all the closer to actually being on the Greenway.

 

[underground]

Unfortunatly, any buildout would probably raise the rent on the space and push the Times out. Remember the Jane Jacobs line, "City's need shitty old building with lousy party walls for cheap dive bars" (that might be my paraphrase).

 

[Ron Newman]

I turned the corner to Franklin St. The Boston Stock Exchange was boarded up.

A door was open there today so I walked in. The people inside told me the Franklin St. space is being remodeled into an office of Webster Bank. I'd call that a happy day, not a sad day, for the financial district.

It looks like the Boston Stock Exchange has moved around the corner, as their sign is now over the Devonshire Street entry to the office-lobby part of that building.

The Stock Exchange hasn't been on Franklin Street for very long. Historically they were in the building now called 'Exchange Place' at State and Congress streets.

 

[czsz]

Damn, I guess I missed my chance at a symbolic recession photo, at least.