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How did the store come to be built like that? Normally, when they run a major road, they'll buy out all the property owners to get a right-of-way.
by chiph 13y ago
How did the store come to be built like that? Normally, when they run a major road, they'll buy out all the property owners to get a right-of-way.
- ilamont 13y agoIt's a strange setup. Historically, the railroad lines existed 100 years before the Mass Pike was planned and built in the 1950s and early 1960s. When the state officials/national highway officials decided to expand the route to 6-lanes plus the RR, they basically leveled a bunch of neighborhoods in Boston and Newton (I assume via eminent domain). The turnpike authority developed a scheme (pushed by a large insurance company/developer in Boston) to lease "air rights" above the pike. That's why the Prudential Center in Boston and Star Market were built above the pike in 1963, and a few years later, the hotel in Newton Corner and some buildings attached to the Hancock tower in Boston. The story is here: http://www.edrgroup.com/pdf/mta-economic-v2.pdf http://www.edrgroup.com/pdf/mta-economic-v2.pdf