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Article: A convention hall plan for C Street
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 5, 1994
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Standing next to the Araban Coffee sign on elevated Summer
Street, the casual observer sees a jumble of low brick buildings,
rail lines, parked cars and tractor trailers stretching into the
distance.
This once-overlooked expanse of low-rent industrial property to
the west of C Street in South Boston has come into the public eye
recently as the Menino administration's chosen site for a $440
million Boston convention center.
The possibility, however remote, of a convention hall rising on
this 27-acre parcel has real estate brokers salivating. It also has
some businesses operating out of the 27-acre site at least mildly
concerned.
Many of the owners and tenants of the 14 parcels that make up ...