Central business district project: land utilization and marketability studies, Boston, Massachusetts.
Contributors: Gladstone Associates.
Published: 1966
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
Subjects: Central Business District, Boston (Mass.) -- Urban Renewal -- Studies.; Downtown, Boston (Mass.) -- Urban Renewal -- Studies.; Housing -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Downtown -- Studies.; Land use -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Downtown -- Studies.; Market Studies -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Downtown -- Studies.; Office buildings -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Downtown -- Studies.; Urban renewal -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Downtown -- Studies.; Boston (Mass.) -- Economic policy -- Downtown -- Studies.
Description: ..this report covers the specific marketability of various space uses for disposition parcels within the Central Business District urban renewal project; the goal of this study was to determine the major market potentials for retail, general commercial, office and multi-family residential uses within disposition parcels in the CBD project during the 1967-75 period; this report is divided into four sections; section 1 provides a background analysis of the project and Boston's central area, project strengths and weaknesses, objectives and proposed re-uses for disposition parcels; past, current and projected population, income and land use trends for metropolitan Boston and downtown are analyzed for retail and general commercial, office and multi-family residential uses in section 2 as a prelude to a specific project marketability analysis; new growth and relocation potentials were estimated and allocated by project development sector in the third section; finally, section 4 sets forth preliminary re-use valuations by parcel; a copy of this item was in the BRA collection...