Struggling With Boston's Waterfront

The South Boston Waterfront has been heralded as the future for Boston. So why is it taking so long?

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June 10, 2002, 5:00 AM PDT

"The promise of Boston's new frontier is an opportunity no other US city as prominent as Boston enjoys at the beginning of the century... It's been almost two decades since Chicago's Pritzker family and local developer Richard Friedman unveiled a grand plan for Fan Pier, a sparkling harbor's-edge minicity that was supposed to initiate the spread of creative development across 1,000 acres and eliminate the gritty remnants of an outdated industrial era."

Thanks to Chris Steins

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Sunday, June 9, 2002 in The Boston Globe

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