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Article: THE REMAKE IN COPLEY SQUARE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 17, 1988
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Tomorrow is Marathon Day. And that means tens of thousands of
people will be wandering around Copley Square, wondering what's the
deal with the wire fences.
The deal, of course, is the $6 million overhaul of the
square's open space. Built in the '60s, demolished last fall to
considerable applause, the old square is being replaced by a 2 1/
2-acre park that will include a food pavilion, lawns, a granite
fountain, 53 trees and 88 cast iron benches.
In short, a complete overhaul. And while the project won't be
finished until next spring -- that's when the benches go in and the
flowers will be planted -- members of the Copley Square Centennial
Committee say ...