By adamg on Thu., 7/30/2015 - 1:30 pm
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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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
What about the Hancock Building?
By Waquiot
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 8:39pm
I am half serious about that.
Still, I would think that having one's name attached to the tallest building in New England, free of charge, would be great advertisement.
As far as resisting name changes go, in addition to my "let's call Roslindale Square/Village/Triangle Tafts Tavern, since that was it's first name" campaign, I still call CMGI Field by that name, since that's what it was called when I saw my first game there.
ugh
By cybah
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 9:29pm
ugh what an awful name for a stadium.. was so glad when they changed the name. Gillette is better fitting.
However, do you call the TD Fleet BankBoston Center Garden the "Shawmut Center", since that's the original name for that building?
I do call it the Shawmut Center
By Waquiot
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 11:14pm
When I'm not calling it the TD Bank North Fleet Center.
ugh what an awful name for a
By anon
Fri, 07/31/2015 - 10:05pm
What the heck was CMGI anyway?
Ask people what Gillete does. Response: duh, they make shaving products.
Why did CMGI do? Um, I think they had something to do with the internet.
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