Ugly Boston

Another example?
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Church of Scientology? What the hell? Will someone tell Tom Cruise to fall of the face of the planet, please?
 
^ fixed up tho it would actually be a very nice building. Too bad no rational people will be able to enjoy it
 
Indeed, this is just exchanging one form of blight for another. I hope Shepard Fairey or one of his imitators does a number on this building repeatedly.
 
The 'Church' would devour the soul of anyone who dared deface their property. I guarantee once the building is cleaned it'll be protected with premium anti graffiti coatings and a legion of the damned.
 
Ron, too bad you're not in my district, or we could work on this together ...
 
Ron Newman said:
Indeed, this is just exchanging one form of blight for another. I hope Shepard Fairey or one of his imitators does a number on this building repeatedly.
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For your sake, Ron, I hope "The Cruiser" (or "His Cruiseness," if you prefer) and his henchmen don't fly their black helicopters over to Davis Square.

Don't you know that The Church of Scientology controls the weather?
 
The only good thing about this is that the papparazzi (or the FBI?) might also restore the townhouse next door.

If only someone would do something about those hideous traffic light arms.
 
The church presented to my neighborhood association last month. That town house is part of the project and had been part of the previous projects. I don't remember if the town house facade will be save or replaced because that building can't be salvaged. There will be three retail bays between the two buildings but the bulk if not all will be for church related activities. They will start when they have the money but the Boston location is competing with several other cities to move to the head of the list. They hope to start this year and have ambitious plans to complete the project in six months.
 
Probably using slave labor from their internal prison camp, the 'Rehabilitation Project Force'.
 
brighton mdc building vacant eyesore for years,sadly this will probally be torn down before being renovated.
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nice looking building, actually. Why did the MDC abandon it? (And where exactly is it?)
 
corner of western ave and leo birmingham pkwy or the soldiers field on ramp unsure why they don't use it ,I think it was the MDC horse barn?
 
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This next building is my favorite renovated a few years ago but no tenants!
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Last one gives the appearance that a large first-floor display window was removed, and instead of properly bricking it over, they covered it with a totally non-matching material. Yuck.
 
Is this the unnecessarily confusing "second" Washington St. in Boston?
 
Boston02124 said:
corner of western ave and leo birmingham pkwy or the soldiers field on ramp unsure why they don't use it ,I think it was the MDC horse barn?
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I think these were built in conjunction with the Speedway, which was a trotting track.

See:
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site here:
http://www.bahistory.org/TrottingParks.html
^^^ Some great old photographs here.

I doubt these will be demolished. They are about the only properties that Harvard does not yet own along the northern side of the western end of Western Ave. And they could be rehabbed for community use or to support recreation facilities; e.g., if Harvard and the city of Boston decided to disperse some of the playing fields at the Smith Playground to elsewhere in Boston.

Olmstead helped design the site, but apparently not these buildings.
 
"Is this the unnecessarily confusing "second" Washington St. in Boston?"

I believe Washington Street in Dorchester got its name before the renaming of Newbury Street / Cornhill / Orange Street into Washington Street in Downtown Crossing, South End, Roxbury Neck.

What is now Washington Street in Dorchester was an early colonial road and was known as the Upper Road and Adams Street was the Lower Road. Both are older than what goes through the Bury south of Dudley, into Forest Hills, and Roslindale, which was laid out as a Turnpike in the 1790's/early 1800's.

There are also Washington Streets in Brighton and Charlestown, right? Are they unnecessarily confusing as well? Should we rename them Eisenhower Street in Brighton, Fillmore Street in Dorchester, and Reagan Street in Charlestown to make you happy? Get over it. People live outside of the 02116/02115/02138/02146 axis and are entitled to their street names as they have been.
 
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