Description:
2000 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE DEVELOPMENT SITE. Jerome Rappaport.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
01/28/1985
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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:
Ride along Blue Hill Avenue. Decrepit, boarded up and abandoned storefronts. Many defunct businesses. Vacant lot. Zion Apostolic and Immanuel Pentecostal Churches. Warren Street intersection. Bridge Free Medical Van. Houses on Supple Road. Prince Hall Masonic Lodge. Sign for the Mayor's Office of Housing. Street sweeping vehicle. Mayor Kevin White walks with Julian Bond through neighborhood with press entourage. White answers questions about his candidacy and housing policy decisions as mayor especially involving the Boston Housing Authority, and says urban revitalization will come to reality within 3-5 years but need more federal $$. White and Bond meet local business owners and community members.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
06/20/1979
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:
Explainer on William Bulger's real estate interest in Harbor Point project.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
01/13/1989
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Columbia Point history. Tenant Task Force takes on redevelopment. Wrecking ball, drum roll, demolition of buildings. Edward Kennedy, John Kerry, Michael Dukakis, Stephen Coyle, Harry Spence, Joseph Mullins, Roger Taylor. Helicopter aerial of site.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
01/26/1987
Description:
Interviews with North End residents giving their opinions on the Central Artery construction. They say since they will have to deal with ten years of construction, the state should give something back to the North End, like more affordable housing. Christy George compares the Central Artery situation with the Southwest Corridor work that happened in the South End. George interviews city planner Ken Kruckemeyer, who explains why the South End project was so successful. Interviews with South End residents giving positive reactions to the parks and other changes that have taken place.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
04/03/1987
Description:
Interview on redevelopment of Charlestown Navy Yard. Environs of dry dock and old structures of yard. Mast of USS Constitution (Old Ironsides). Bulldozer clearing construction site. Several camera moves inside building 42. Glimpses of waterfront, Bunker Hill Monument, tug boat and container ship in harbor, buildings around Navy Yard, Mystic River (Tobin) Bridge. Construction sign “Charlestown Shipyard Park.” Old wharf building made of big granite blocks. Large wooden industrial building.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
03/22/1978
Description:
Mystic River (Tobin) Bridge seen from Main Street, Chelsea. Two military statues. City Hall exterior with clock tower. Wide of Mystic Bridge spanning water. Pan to Bunker Hill Monument. Zoom in to steel girders of bridge. Power plant with smokestacks. Exterior Chelsea Naval Hospital and Enlisted Men's Club with broken windows. Soldier's Home, marina. Everett LNG tanks. Interview with Robert Kenney about revitalization of Naval Hospital and fire site into housing and amenities.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
07/20/1979
