They fight for a tower and trees, in precisely the right spot, making their mark on the changing Boston landscape. Hadrian Millon and Wellington Reiter have dug themselves into a big hole. Expensively dressed real estate developers, architects and private-sector financial types whisper in the ears of city officials as Reiter describes the vertical urban monument he's designed, inspired by ancient Rome. But Dewey Square is not your typical neighborhood. And among this concentration of modern, high-rise testaments to Big Business, there's a lot more money to be made.
South Station is the hub of passenger train service for metropolitan Boston and much of New England.
Dewey Square, which is really more of a triangle, is home to several wealthy institutions including the Federal Reserve Bank, the biggest building looming on the block. The worried Boston officials scattered in the audience for Millon and Reiter's presentation are starting to get a little hostile. They and their cronies don't have as much control of the project as they'd like. Reiter's tower adds another element that isn't theirs. Let's not commission any public art until we build more buildings around Dewey Square, say the city officials and their business pals.