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singalong37 t1_j9vh55v wrote

Reply to comment by ihatepostingonblogs in Looking to visit Boston & would love advice/must-sees! by ThereGoesChickenJane

Even the shopping area is interesting as a circa 1830 urban renewal project reclaiming land from the harbor and building a handsome granite wholesale market building with flanking rows. The accomplishment is somewhat trivialized by the corporate consumer uses it’s been put to.

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ihatepostingonblogs t1_j9vjevt wrote

Yeah and I feel like when you live here we all take it for granted. We get annoyed at all the people and ignore how cool it is. I wish it was more boutiques like it used to be instead of all the chains but the history/architecture is still very cool.

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