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Article: Democratic National Convention groups skip house rentals in Boston.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- July 14, 2004
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By Yvonne Abraham, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 14--For local residents, it looked like a gold mine: thousands of delegates and their guests headed to Boston for the Democratic National Convention. Surely the city would run out of hotel rooms. Surely the honored guests would want other accommodations. Something more private, perhaps? Something, say, just steps from presumptive nominee John F. Kerry's handsome Louisburg Square abode?
So the people of Beacon Hill and plenty of neighborhoods farther afield put their gracious townhouses and modest studio apartments up for rent, at prices befitting the mad rush they were ...