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Post Office Square revitalization

Description: Differing priorities are expressed for the revitalization of Post Office Square. Joseph Tierney opposes taking municipal parking garage by eminent domain. Robert Weinberg favors open space. BRA accepts proposal for underground parking garage.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/10/1984

Quincy shipyard

Description: Paul Levy, Water Resources Authority commissioner, battles with Quincy over acquiring shipyard for sewage treatment plant. Possibility of taking it by eminent domain.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/26/1987

ROSIE'S PLACE

Description: Boston Redevelopment Authority HEARING ON RENOVATIONS OF PHILLIP'S RECTORY, BOARD MEMBERS, MEL KING. ROSIE'S PLACE.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/30/1984

Rappaport DEVELOPMENT

Description: BOSTON CITY COUNCIL MEETING ABOUT 2000 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE DEVELOPMENT OF JEROME RAPPAPORT
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/28/1985

Safdie's North Station plan

Description: Mayor Kevin White holds press conference in Boston Garden lobby to announce Moshe Safdie's plan to redevelop North Station area. Credits BRA director Robert Ryan, standing by, for inspiration. Safdie explains plan, pointing to massive architectural model. It involves creating an island in the Charles River, moving the elevated green line trolley, and either a new arena for Celtics and Bruins or a major renovation of the Garden.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/24/1979

Slow business for developer

Description: Architect and developer L. Duane Jackson laments slow business in Boston, particularly the lack of public funding for developing open lots.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/16/1990

South End environs

Description: Storefronts on Massachusetts Avenue, Columbus Avenue and Tremont Street in South End. Charlie's Sandwich Shop, Jerry's Mini-Mart, Skippy White's Records, Uncle Ned's Money to Loan, Jack's Men's Shop, Big John's Shanty Lounge. Looking down line of traffic driving underneath elevated orange line structure. Man lying in dilapidated doorway. Pass by boarded up brownstones. Beauty salon, liquor stores, laundry, travel agency. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Boston office. Regional Urban Design Assistance Team (RUDAT) group on rooftop surveys expanse of South End buildings to make planning recommendations.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/09/1980

Steaming Kettle closes

Description: Environs shots for story on Steaming Kettle coffee shop closing. Downtown environs, Summer Street at Winter Street. People, traffic, buildings around Downtown Crossing. Jordan Marsh Company sign.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/27/1990

Stephen Coyle and Parcel 18

Description: William Weld, Ray Flynn, Stephen Coyle and others attend inaugural ceremony for Parcel 18 Ruggles Center development. Interview with Coyle on his approach and outlook for Boston Redevelopment Authority.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/21/1991

Tent City

Description: Sound goes in and out. Footage of a meeting of the Boston Redevelopment Authority. Heated argument between Mr. Ashe and Mr. Kiley. Other members speak. During the meeting, a member of the public housing tenants community makes a speech, and other tenants sit-in and demand the resignation of the chairman. Another man gives a speech for the rights of the tenants to a large audience. Mostly demolished building. Interview with a man on the tenants movement against the BRA, particularly the Tent City protest. Bishop Stokes of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts presents a check for $10,000 to the leaders of the tenants movement. Footage of people demonstrating at the lot at the corner of Dartmouth and Columbus in the South End. Footage of the remnants of Tent City, with reporter voice over. Close up shots of dangerous housing. Young people building structures of sticks and plastic tarps. Footage of Tent City. More of the interview with man on community involvement with the BRA planning. Interview with Mr. Rollins and another man on their protest of the BRA, after their arrests. People disassembling Tent City. Interview with BRA official on community relations with urban renewal projects. He talks about Ed Logue's work. Then he makes a statement about the state of the BRA when he took office.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 04/1968