Mixed-Use Developments Are Key To Boston's Success

Mixed-Use developments are lifting downtrodden Boston neighborhoods.

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January 27, 2003, 5:00 AM PST

"Many Bostonians were amazed when Millennium Partners and the Ritz-Carlton decided to spend half a billion dollars building an enormous, two-tower, 1.8 million-square-foot complex with more than 300 condos, a hotel, health club, and movie theater on the ''wrong'' side of the Boston Common, a long-suffering neighborhood with little residential space and more than its fair share of crime and seediness."

Thanks to David Hey

FULL STORY: Going up

Sunday, January 26, 2003 in The Boston Globe

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