Temporary Re-use of Filenes Site

[tobyjug]

Last night about 3 AM, as I was walking by the crater, I started to hear Johnny (or is it Edgar) Winter's "Frankenstein". Strobe lights were going off all over the broken open parts of the building. Fog was rising out of the pit. Little "Enchanted Village" figures twirled in the windows. Did anyone else see/hear it?

Makes you think that someone ought to put the place to some temporary artistic use. What do you think ought to go on there during these next 5 years?

 

[underground]

Send me one bottle of whatever you were drinking that night, ASAP!

 

[Ron Newman]

I'd turn it over to the woman who did this a couple years back in the former Allston OfficeMax, and see what she can create.

 

[statler]

Why nothing will happen at the site:

1. Not worth the cost to set up utilities and structures for temporary use.
2. Insurance liability
3. Whatever ends up there might run the risk of becoming so popular people will complain about rebuilding the site.

That said, a temporary store by day/ club by night, a la Puma City would be awesome.

 

[Beton Brut]

Maybe the folks behind this could use the site effectively.

Call it Life During Menino.