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Idea: Turn the Filene's hole into a swimming pool
By adamg on Wed, 02/25/2009 - 4:56pm
Ed. Note: The BBJ has apparently unpublished the story, so whether it's accurate or not, I don't know.
The Boston Business Journal reports that the one company actually interested in leasing space in One Franklin Place - the tower that's supposed to replace the hole - is now backing away from the idea, in part because it's been unable to negotiate a lease with the hole's owner.
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How much dirt in that hole?
How much dirt in that hole?
Boston Business Journal link is not correct
Did they retract the story? I can't find it on their web site at all.
This is starting to get annoying
It's one thing when I screw up a URL because I can't type or hit Control-C hard enough, it's quite another when media outlets unpublish stories they've already put in RSS, which is the case here. Here's what was in their RSS earlier today:
The story even had a quote from somebody Fishy about the whole situation.
A big intellectual property
A big intellectual property firm with main offices in Boston and Houston.
More hard hitting journanlism!
The difference between a blogger and a journalist:
-A journalist writes about news
-A blogger posts a link to a journalist's work, whines or tries to act smarrmy, and puts some CPC ads on it.
And we wounder the economy is the toilet.
Go work at Barnes and Nobles!
Obvious troll is obvious.
Obvious troll is obvious. Go pound sand.
Cease and Desist request from the Kettle
Pot, it has recently come to the attention of Kettle, my client, that the very complaint you are making (i.e. "whines or tries to act smarrmy (sic)") is one that more accurately applies to yourself. You are also further upsetting my other client, the Straw Man, by bringing the wounder (sic) of the poor state of the economy into a discussion on journanlism (sic).
Please find this to be a notice to cease and desist the aforementioned abuses of logic and the English language. Thanks.
Filene's -- more in today's Globe
Credit crisis bites Filene's development
A Modest Funding Proposal
1. Round up Madoff, his wife who emptied the accounts and put the money in her name, and his lovely scions who were in on the deal.
2. Put them in the hole and make them live there.
3. Build a set of stocks and lock them in from 10am to 2pm every day
4. Gather up the remains of the day from Haymarket and bring them to Washington St.
5. Charge $5 a throw. Funnelators are extra.
6. BONUS POINTS: Get "shovel ready" money for a participatory historical attraction by making them wear puritan garb while people lob rotten veggies at them.