Description:
2000 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE DEVELOPMENT SITE. Jerome Rappaport.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
01/28/1985
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Description:
BRA approves plans for revitalized downtown district. Greenspace Alliance objects to size of proposed buildings. Architectural models of Boston Crossing, Commonwealth Center. Pedestrians, shoppers
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
06/15/1989
Description:
Interview with June Howe of Back of the Hill Community Development Association (BOTHCDA) about Mission Hill neighborhood development and revitalization. Calls it “the country in the city.” Memorandum of Agreement to buy vacant land from Lahey Clinic to build owner occupied mixed income family housing, elderly and handicapped housing, and/or subsidized rental housing. Environs of undeveloped parcel of interest. Ellingwood Street site. New England Baptist Hospital on Parker Hill Avenue in background. Tilt down to abandoned lot with construction materials left behind. Brief view of Harvard Medical Area Power Plant.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
07/06/1979
Description:
Outdoor press conference with Brock Adams, US Secretary of Transportation, flanked by Sens. Edward Brooke and Edward Kennedy, on southwest corridor mass transit project. Fred Salvucci stands behind them. $669 million in federal funds approved. An additional $1 billion will be invested through public/private initiatives for urban development contingent with relocation of the orange line. Kennedy and Brooke make grateful remarks. Reps. Mary Good and James Craven. Mel King appears (in t-shirt and baseball cap) to acknowledge the efforts of community activists. This very large scale public works project will create jobs and keep the neighborhoods from being physically divided along racial lines. Adams answers question on air traffic congestion expected at large airports.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
08/11/1978
Description:
Durgin Park restaurant next to Faneuil Hall. People wait in line for seats. Steam table. Plate of corn bread. Waitresses in white uniforms. Families crowded at tables with red and white checkered cloths. Fish plates with corn. Big roast beef meal. Boston baked beans sign. More signs for fresh strawberries, swordfish, oysters. “Specialty of the house - prime rib $9.” “Lobster platter $7.50.” Menu with prices. Interview with notorious waitress Dotti “the witch.” Pressed tin ceiling. Flapping banner outside. View from window onto Quincy Market. Interview with owner about differences with BRA and developer James Rouse over desire to keep Durgin Park as a pristine Boston institution amidst neighboring commercial revitalization.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
08/21/1978
Description:
Former Boston Redevelopment Authority director Ed Logue tours and comments on development downtown and in Charlestown and Cambridge. He talks about housing prices, the vitality of different neighborhoods, and urban design. He decries prominent glass towers as insensitive to surrounding historical buildings. International Place, Exchange Place, Rowes Wharf, waterfront, Athenaeum. Audio goes out at the very end.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
12/26/1986
Description:
Architectural model of proposed redevelopment of North Station area. High wide shot of Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market buildings. Bostix kiosk.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
02/25/1980
Description:
HUD wants to sell off to private developers two public housing projects in Boston, Granite Properties and Geneva Apartments. Tenants point out poor conditions and unfair eviction notice.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
12/19/1988
Description:
Kevin White gives speech on Boston real estate development; then comments on his tenuous connection with Edward McCormack, denying any conflict of interest or impropriety. Interview with Ed McCormack.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
02/14/1989
Description:
History of Boston real estate development ("Gold Rush") during Kevin White's administration and corruption indictments therein. Theodore Anzalone, Harold Brown, Edward McCormack. Mostly file. Richard Thornburgh.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
02/13/1989
