The Dorchester Reporter gets a look at UMass Boston's latest ideas for the Bayside Expo Center it owns - which call for building "a modern-day Harvard Square."
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Modern-day Harvard Square?
By Snuggles
Tue, 08/08/2017 - 6:57pm
Lots of banks and chain stores?
You should first have a few beloved local places, so you can take them away, with skyrocketing rents.
Modern day Harvard Square
By anon
Tue, 08/08/2017 - 7:03pm
Great idea build a giant pit for runaways, truants, homeless and addicts to hang around in just like Harvard square.
In a past life I would gaze
By Chris77
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 7:28am
In a past life I would gaze at the punks in the Pit before hanging out at the Bow and Arrow, then I would get a late night sandwich at Buzzy's.
http://www.universalhub.com/files/images/buzzys.jpg
Modern Day Harvard Square
By The Ghost of Jo...
Tue, 08/08/2017 - 7:16pm
Will they take the ancient and (dis)honorable Harvard Square Defense brigade with them?
mall
By cybah
Tue, 08/08/2017 - 7:20pm
So they are replacing an indoor mall with an outdoor mall.
You can call it whatever you want...but in the end, it's still an outdoor mall.
Will it have a depressed pit
By anon
Tue, 08/08/2017 - 7:30pm
Will it have a depressed pit in the middle of the development full of angst filled anarchists, Marxists, Maoists, other fans of genocide loving-isms, nihilists, skate punks, would be rockers, urban campers, and other riff-raff hellbent on "sticking it to the man"?
Oh and a retro-news stand where people can go out of their way to be seen pretending to buy things as the proprietors slowly go bankrupt from no one actually buying any merchandise?
Maoists? "Sticking it to the man?"
By Jeff F
Tue, 08/08/2017 - 9:57pm
Dude, 1974 called, it misses you too.
I really hope so!
By anon
Tue, 08/08/2017 - 10:07pm
That sounds awesome. I'll walk by and sigh nostalgically and in my heart stick it to the man for old times sake.
Seems like a shortsighted plan for waterfront property
By O-FISH-L
Tue, 08/08/2017 - 9:06pm
My first question is why is struggling UMass in the retail development business? UMass Building Authority? Really? Isn't the lifeblood of Harvard Square the fact that Red Line trains arrive right underneath and numerous buses stop on their way through, plus a top rated, historic university literally in the Square? JFK/UMass station may be a few blocks from the Bayside but it's a world away for pedestrians who would have to be hoofing it a much further distance and crossing busy streets. UMass is even further away than JFK. The mom and pop retail and newstands of Harvard Square are dead or dying. Are the planners simply proposing a waterfront strip mall? If UMass can't find an educational use, they should sell the property to the highest bidder, shore up their budget and get back to their mission of education not retail.
Agreed
By anon
Tue, 08/08/2017 - 7:58pm
Somehow I lack any morsel of confidence in a governmental agency attempting to run a commercial enterprise.
UMass should not sell the
By anon
Tue, 08/08/2017 - 9:46pm
UMass should not sell the land outright, but offer a long term ground lease (20 years?). That way the university can obtain additional funds over time at appreciating rates rather than a one time cash infusion.
UMB wants to be Harvard, methinks.
By necturus
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 5:19pm
Harvard owns vast amounts of real estate in Cambridge and Boston which they rent out commercially.
It will end up like Winter St
By anon
Tue, 08/08/2017 - 7:35pm
DTX. As DJT would tweet: #Sad
And developers will get federal $ for developing in a 'blighted' area.
Interesting
By Waquiot
Tue, 08/08/2017 - 9:11pm
Am I the only one in the uhubaverse who remembers when there was a shopping center there?
I remember too...
By SBer
Tue, 08/08/2017 - 10:49pm
The store I remember the most was the Almy's there - convenient for running out to buy panti-hose for school the next day. Too young to drive so had to wait for Dad to give us a ride and wait in the car while we ran in.
What other stores were there?
I recall not feeling safe - being told to run in and out quickly. This was pre-renovation of the then Columbia Point housing project.
Too young to remember the stores
By Waquiot
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 8:29am
But the lack of safety is something that has stuck in my head.
nope
By cybah
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 6:10am
Which is why I said "they are turning a indoor mall into an outdoor mall"
I may have not lived here when it was the Bayside Mall, but I certainly was told it was a Mall eons ago before it became a conference space.
Bad idea
By anon
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 5:29am
Dumbest plan anyone could have come up with.
It will obviously look like
By Chris77
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 7:20am
It will obviously look like this and the first floor will be occupied by Citzens, Santander and a yoga studio.
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3191334,-71.0502439,3a,60y,302.04h,92.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0-mde8n_cuVBK0uhNIS3rw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
http://www.gettyimages.com
By Robert Paulson
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 9:43am
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/fathe...
Here is a picture of Boston Police receiving Communion in the Bayside Mall parking lot during bussing.
Boston cops were kissing?
By anon
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 2:57pm
Boston cops were kissing? When was this?
How about a 1970s-era Harvard Square instead?
By Ron Newman
Wed, 08/09/2017 - 11:04am
That I could enthusiastically support.
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