Banker and Tradesman reports the Hancock Tower is now officially just 200 Clarendon St. Seems Hancock objected to having its name remain on the tower once it no longer owned it or rented any space in it.
For a city with residents who still refer to Rte. 128, that's going to be a hard sell, Hancock.
Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock.
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Dirty
By cybah
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 1:37pm
You just wanted to say HanCOCK a buncha times, didn't you Adam?
But seriously, as I said in my tweet... locals will still call it the Hancock tower.
Woodie
By perruptor
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 10:00pm
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There is nothing more American...
By SoBo-Yuppie
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 1:45pm
...than renaming things.
Like the European invaders renaming Shawmut to Boston or like the yuppies renaming Southie to SoBo.
Except that Boston stuck. SoBo will
By MC Slim JB
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 4:37pm
never stick, as it is simultaneously risible and appalling.
Almost as bad as innovation
By gotdatwmd
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 5:23pm
Almost as bad as innovation district
Neither suck as bad as "Midtown"
By bibliotequetress
Fri, 07/31/2015 - 7:39am
.
Midtown is technically a real
By bgl
Fri, 07/31/2015 - 10:49am
Midtown is technically a real thing though (along with the Theater District and Ladder District). SoBo, EaBo, SoWa (seriously wtf, washington st is west), etc.
Or the Wall Street invaders
By anon
Fri, 07/31/2015 - 12:05pm
Or the Wall Street invaders renaming Shawmut
to BayBank
to BayBank / A Bank of Boston Company
to BankBoston
to FleetBoston
to Bank of America.
Did I miss anything?
Hancock Tower?
By erik g
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 1:48pm
It's a good thing it's easier to scrub the internet of references to the Property Formerly Known As The Hancock Tower than it is to purge it from the memory of locals. For instance, I'm sure Google will never find any mentions of the Hancock Tower anywhere, now that we've all collectively agreed to stop referring to the Hancock Tower as the Hancock Tower. Nope, not a single place on the internet will call it the Hancock Tower after today.
Hancock Tower.
Sears Tower in Chicago....
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 1:50pm
... was vacated by Sears eons ago, but I think it is still usually thought of as the Sears Tower (and I can never remember its alleged new name).
The tower formerly known as Sears...
By Bob Leponge
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 2:07pm
... has been renamed for action movie star Bruce Willis, apparently.
Nope
By BullDetector
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 3:03pm
Willis group holdings. They lease in the building and have the naming rights. It's an insurance group based in London.
Can't put anything over on
By Scratchie
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 3:19pm
Can't put anything over on you, huh?
Im usually good with Sarcasm.
By FredQuimby
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 3:46pm
Like this one.
But only when its done right.
I disagree. Sarcasm works even better when you
By MC Slim JB
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 4:38pm
can watch it whizzing over someone's head.
Wrong Willis
By anon
Fri, 07/31/2015 - 1:22pm
What you talkin' bout, Willis!?
Yeah, that'll work about as
By oddjob60
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 1:48pm
Yeah, that'll work about as well as it did with the Sears Tower.
You beat me....
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 1:50pm
...by 2 minutes.
Whachoo talkin' 'bout,
By Stevil
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 1:51pm
Willis?!
Beat me to it
By Scratchie
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 2:02pm
By ten minutes.
Hancock Tower?
By roadman
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 1:57pm
Don't you mean the Plywood Palace?
Plywood Palace?!?
By issacg
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 2:12pm
Here I was thinking that your head was going to explode (and waiting for you to return fire!) just at the sight of people referring to the semi-circumferential highway around Boston, running (roughly) from Peabody to Canton as Route 128.
The heat must really be getting to us.
Now, now
By roadman
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 2:21pm
I don't allow myself to be baited THAT easily. Especially when it's Adam that made the reference.
This name shouldn't be an issue
By Neal
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 1:59pm
Especially for a division of a Canadian insurance company, who uses the name of our Commonwealth's first governor, member of the Committee of Safety, president of the Continental Congress, signatory of the Declaration of Independence, among other things. Boston Properties should put up a statue of Gov. Hancock and and rename the tower in Governor Hancock's honor. Problem solved.
John Winthrop was the first
By gotdatwmd
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 2:50pm
John Winthrop was the first governor yo.
Tsk tsk.
Yes, but it's still true that
By Dot net
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 4:20pm
Yes, but it's still true that Hancock was the first governor of the Commonwealth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Massachu...
Wait, what?
By Scratchie
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 2:02pm
Rt. 128 has a different name? Since when?
And it's not just "residents"
By Dave
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 3:02pm
And it's not just "residents" who cling to the old 128 designation.
Every morning, the radio traffic reports warn of heavy traffic on "128 from Braintree to Rte 20".
And there are still lots of ads that refer to "Rte. 1" in Dedham and West Roxbury.
Of lesser import, but still
By roadman
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 3:41pm
a peeve of mine, is how some of the local traffic reporters (especially on WBZ during the morning rush) have taken to dropping the "225" part from the Route 4/225 exit in Lexington, now just referring to it as "Route 4".
And we wonder why drivers in this area get confused so easily.
Rte what?
By Perry
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 4:12pm
128 has another name? What is it?
Why, the
By roadman
Fri, 07/31/2015 - 10:15am
Yankee Division Highway, of course. (MGL Chapter 360, Acts of 1941).
Not just ads
By adamg
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 4:38pm
When Dedham rebuilt Washington Street by the Dedham Mall 3-4 years ago, they put up a large Rte. 1 JCT sign.
Huh?
By statler
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 9:53pm
What the proper name for Rt 1 in Dedham?
I believe he is referring to
By bgl
Fri, 07/31/2015 - 11:13am
I believe he is referring to "Providence Highway" or w/e. Rt. 1 technically "ends" at the 95 junction now and it was rerouted onto 93 north. Used to be Providence Highway -> VFW -> J way -> etc. Most still consider at least the dedham west roxbury parts to be still rt 1.
YeahI don't get it...
By Marco
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 4:07pm
It is part of 95, but it splits off up north. It is still, technically, its own route. Should we be referring to it by some other designation?
Meh, just another bad piece of prose on this website....
Um ...
By adamg
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 4:41pm
Yes, 128 still officially exists north of the city, but the state wants us to refer to the part of the circumferential highway from, oh, 93 north of the city all the way to the Braintree split south of the city as (variously) 95, 93 or 1, and damnit, some of us are still going to call that 128, even if it means absurdities like getting on 128 South to go north to the South Shore Plaza.
I'm pretty sure it's still signed 128
By Neal
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 4:50pm
Between the I-93 cloverleaf on the Woburn/Reading line to the junction with I-95.
Correct
By roadman
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 5:17pm
Although the principal designation of the highway between Canton and Peabody is I-95, FHWA has let the state continue to post 128 markers on the highway, but not on the large green signs**.
** from the "exception to every rule" department, note that a handful of green guide signs on secondary streets at the Salem Street and Walnut Street interchanges currently have both I-95 and 128 markers - these signs were recently installed by a private developer, not the state.
You mean
By Name
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 5:56pm
You mean the Yankee Division Highway?
whatever would Freud say?
By Malcolm Tucker
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 2:03pm
There are a lot of cocks in this post.
Closed for 14 years now
By anon
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 2:19pm
It's time to re-open The Top of the Cock. .
A brilliant marketing ploy!
By issacg
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 4:24pm
If the (formerly) public space on the top floors of the Hancock Tower were reopened and included a bar called "TOP O' THE 'COCK" the place would be mobbed all of the time. I can already see all the selfie stick wielding tourists knocking over martini glasses whilst waiting in line to by T-shirts emblazoned with silly lines like:
"I got cocked at the Top"
"Top O' The 'Cock to you!"
"I sucked one down at Top O' The 'Cock"
and much, much worse. They could even throw in a rooster on the logo to complete the multiple entendre.
Just in case some knucklehead does this, be advised that my copyright and trademark applications are on the way in.
Addendum: all of that said, I do think that we need more public drinking establishments in high places. As cliché as it is, I do enjoy an adult beverage at the Top of the Hub (even though it has been years) - looking out from up there reminds me that notwithstanding our issues, this really is a fundamentally good city and region.
I'm going to Kickstarter a French restaurant for
By MC Slim JB
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 4:46pm
that space. Naturally, it will be called "La Tête de Coq."
Bravo!
By issacg
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 5:11pm
n/t
menu ideas
By Malcolm Tucker
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 6:02pm
cock au vin
cockilles
cock monsieur
cock madame (feminism, etc.)
And in the comment section!
By ladycommentariat
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 2:29pm
I kid, I kid.
He'd probably say that this
By R Hookup
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 3:42pm
He'd probably say that this blog post isn't going to get past your family's content filter.
Technically the third one
By Kaz
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 2:03pm
Granted, as the largest tower in town, it's definitely going to have some staying power over their new "Hancock Tower/Building/whatever" in the
SeaportInnovation District. But it's not even the first Hancock Tower, it's the third.This is going to get confusing
By Saddlebrook7
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 3:14pm
So, when I speak of the Old Hancock (the one with the blue/red light on top) should I call it the Really Old Hancock? Then again, I'm still using the long-gone Coke plant near the Alston Pike exit as a landmark when giving directions.
Directions ...
By adamg
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 4:42pm
Just take a left at the jughandle where the McDonald's used to be ...
Sounds like you're describing
By roadman
Fri, 07/31/2015 - 10:16am
Central Square in Lynn.
Historical note - The McDonalds in Central Square Lynn was the very first one in the entire chain to be closed soley due to poor sales performance - it was constructed as part of the City's Union Street Pedestrian Mall failure and was only in business for less than a year.
No, another failed McDonald's
By adamg
Fri, 07/31/2015 - 6:07pm
The one just before the Dedham line on VFW Parkway in West Roxbury, across from the still open other McDonald's. You know, next to where the Chuck E. Cheese used to be.
Not as a hard a sell as people think.
By anon
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 2:03pm
Who thought SoBo would take off as a name?
Nobody. Because
By MC Slim JB
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 4:43pm
it hasn't. And won't.
Xfinity Center?
By Jeffery
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 2:07pm
Don't you mean Great Woods?
No, he means CMGI Stadium.
By anon
Fri, 07/31/2015 - 12:08pm
No, he means CMGI Stadium.
Excuse me
By Waquiot
Fri, 07/31/2015 - 1:29pm
I believe you mean CMGI Field
Hancock? Sounds like a bird.
By Burt Batman
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 2:07pm
Hancock? Sounds like a bird. Hancock. Flying around.
Baltimore?
By Jeffery
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 6:20pm
n/t
Whatever it's called,
By anon
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 2:27pm
Whatever it's called, hopefully they'll reopen the observatory.
I know wishfull thinking.
Same thing as The Garden (The
By Patricia
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 2:35pm
Same thing as The Garden (The Gahhden), I know of no one who called it one of it's trendy names (Fleet Center, TD something... ). Honestly when they changed the name, most of us didn't listen.
It will always be the Hancock Tower.
I know of no one who called
By roadman
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 2:39pm
Except for sports reporters, who called it the Fleece - excuse me - Fleet Center, lest they risk losing their jobs. And the "FleetCenter" name didn't last long enough for it to really stick.
And the current name is TD Garden, so calling it simply "The Garden" is a logical nickname.
Sure, but
By Kaz
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 2:54pm
Sure...but the reason that's a logical nickname is reverse engineering. Everyone was still calling it "The Garden" so TD changed the name to fit instead of the other way around.
At least TD Bank was smart
By joecab
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 2:57pm
At least TD Bank was smart enough to know the name wasn't going anywhere so they might as well put "Garden" back in there.
(Sorry, tried to delete this redundant comment but the software doesn't allow for that. :/)
Sorry, but it's still the
By anon
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 2:38pm
Sorry, but it's still the Hancock! Just like the Sears Tower is still the Sears Tower, as is the Garden, and so on and so forth.
Ohhhhh, /that/ Hancock building
By anon
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 3:19pm
Gee, you don't mean /the Hancock Building/ you mean the /new/ Hancock Building.
Underground miniature railroad between old JH buildings.
By theszak
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 3:28pm
Check out the miniature railroad for moving mail that runs underground between the old John Hancock buildings. The Urban Archeologists at the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation have a tour from time to time.
Good luck with that
By APB
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 3:43pm
If they are going to keep leaving their towers lying around, we're going to call them whatever we want.
Dukakis Station
By anon
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 5:29pm
Didn't they recently rename South Station Michael Dukakis Station? I've yet to hear anyone call it that.
Is Chrysler still in the Chrysler Building? How about Woolworth?
By Ron Newman
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 5:46pm
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