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Giant, gaping downtown hole to be filled in by winter
By adamg on Mon, 08/10/2009 - 9:23am
The Globe reports on how badly developer John Hynes feels about the empty swimmin' hole on Washington Street, says that if he doesn't get financing by October to start building there, he'll fill the hole in. No word on whether he'll also cover up what's left of the Filene's buildings, or simply leave them to rot so that when he finally does get financing, he can tell the city they're too far gone to save and simply knock them down.
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Great...instead of a big
Great...instead of a big empty hole, we'll have a big empty lot. Were skyscrapers financed with a wink and a handshake until now?
earth to moron:
nobody's gives a whoop about the hole in the ground.... its about the hole in the city, which it will be whether its at grade or not.
If there were any sense in this city
They'd cover the hole and then put an outdoor market on top. Hooray! Now there's at least something there, and something's better than an absence of something. Even if Hynes is waiting until October to do his little deed.
But perhaps expecting a little sense from a DTX developer is too much. (Hey Kensington, how's that vacant lot you made from the Gaiety working out for you?)
But we've got a few of
But we've got a few of those. Let's think larger! Fill it in, and put a beer garden on that spot. In one full swoop we'd fix all that ales downtown crossing.
My God
It's full of stars!
Good idea
But shouldn't something like that be on Sudsbury Street?
This reminds me
I had a thought on Friday while riding the Green Line to South Station. I was thinking that I could open a microbrewery and name all of the beers after stops on the MBTA.
I'd start with offering a Hynes Convention Center I.P.A., a domestic Ale-wife, and a rich, coffee-dark Porter Square...
Poor John Hynes...
...just another victim of the bad economy. At least according to the broadsheet.
His original DTX project was grounded in the extreme greed of the real estate boom.
His grandfather helped to give us the BRA and the butt-ugly urban redevelopment projects that destroyed picturesque, historic parts of the city.
Now it looks like one way or another, the grandson will finish the job.