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Plan seeks to untangle North End traffic as towers rise

BOSTON – Averting traffic woes in the area around Boston's North Station – as huge office, residential and hotel towers begin to rise in the neighborhood – is the goal of a city planning effort that kicked off this week. After an initial phase, a transportation consultant will be sought next

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Leonard Nimoy takes a virtual star turn in the West End

BOSTON – Last year's passing of Leonard Nimoy, who played Mr. Spock in the "Star Trek" TV series and movies, delivered a blow to "trekkies" worldwide. A year later, Nimoy's memory will be honored during Jewish American Heritage Month at the West End

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How urban renewal drives Boston’s 21st century feel

BOSTON – From the razing of the West End in the 1950s to the more recent Big Dig, Boston's urban renewal projects aren't points of universal pride among local residents. Yet today's Boston, the city people know and love, owes its current look and feel

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Apartment tower approved for Boston’s West End

BOSTON – A planned apartment tower near TD Garden in the West End won approval from the city's development agency Thursday, capping a nearly six-year effort to create hundreds of new apartments in the neighborhood between North Station and Massachusetts General Hospital. The scaled-back project calls for a slightly

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Towers approved to replace Government Center garage

BOSTON – A piece of Boston's Brutalist-style Government Center will fall under a plan approved Thursday for two towers on the downtown site. A 480-foot residential building and a 528-foot office tower will replace the Government Center garage, a hulking concrete structure stretching over Congress Street that opened in