Letter dated 6 April 1973
Published: 1973
Language: eng
Subjects: Downtown; Urban renewal; Park Square Area; Park Plaza Urban Renewal Project, Boston (Mass.); History
Description: ...this letter, addressed to Robert Beckham from Ralph Memolo, Public Information Officer of the BRA, concerns a possible article by Robert Kenney, Director of the BRA, on downtown Boston's Park Plaza urban renewal project for the Journal of Housing; briefly describes the plan, its history, problems, etc., of this privately funded urban renewal effort; it proposes a story that would provide some insight on the whole matter of privately funded urban renewal and the possible difficulties when a city tries to sponsor such project; this item was in the BRA collection...