Millennium Partners kicked off construction of a $220 million residential tower near Downtown Crossing today with a ground-breaking trumpeted by Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino.
The New York City-based developer and its Boston partners started work on the 15-story Hayward Place that will open in about two years with 256 condominiums and street-level shops. The project will create 450 construction jobs.
“What a great day in the neighborhood,” Menino told a crowd packed into a white tent for this morning’s ceremony. “This ground-breaking of Hayward Place is another sign of economic growth and forward progress on the revitalization of this area.”
The project site is now a parking lot on lower Washington Street facing the Paramount Theater and the Millennium-built Ritz-Carlton Hotel and Towers. The wedge-shaped block is close to Chinatown and the old Combat Zone, once home to strip clubs, bars and brothels that had its heyday in the 1970s.
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Boston Strip Clubs: Hayward Place condo tower breaks ground downtown
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011Boston Strip Clubs: Construction begins on another residential tower in downtown Boston
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011The residences are slated to be a mix of condominiums and apartments and will include one- two- and three-bedroom units. Hayward Place is the second large residential project to break ground in the neighborhood recently, with The Kensington project just down the street slated to add 381 units.
“New economic growth is really taking hold,” Boston Mayor Thomas M. Meninocq said during an event to celebrate the formal start of construction today. “In the last quarter, we had 1,000 new housing units break ground. The last time was saw that was in 2006” at the height of the real estate market.
Hayward Place, designed by Handel Architectscq of New York, will complete Millennium Partners’ revitalization of a section of Washington Street known as the Combat Zone for the collection of seedy strip clubs and bars that once dominated the area. In 2001 and 2002, Millennium completed the Ritz Carlton Hotel & Towers project that helped spur other development in the area.
Boston Strip Clubs: Spurs news and notes: Writer hopes Celtics can copy Spurs, Parker’s new girl …
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011… Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich chats with a participant at this past Rock ‘n’ Roll half-marathon in San Antonio.
• Is this Spurs’ Tony Parker new squeeze he took to the BNP Paribas’ Tennis Masters Final?• Manu Ginobili spoke on the progress of a new stadium being proposed in Argentina and talked about his kids.
• Express News’ Tim Griffin gives a healthy scoop of NBA player’s Twitter reactions to today’s news the lockout might have ended the NBA season.
• Pounding the Rock has a funny photo of Manu detailing the complex world of the BRI.
• If there is any silver-lining in the possible canceled NBA season is the fact the women of the gentleman’s club Rick Cabaret will be hooping throughout the lockout. And by hooping I mean women running up and down the court in next to nothing.
Boston Strip Clubs: Francis Trudeau, 87, of N. Attleboro, dishwasher
Monday, November 14th, 2011Francis Trudeau, 87, of N. Attleboro, dishwasher
rancis L. Trudeau of North Attleboro, formerly of Boston, a retired dishwasher and furniture stripper, died Thursday at the Golden Living Center in Attleboro. He was 87.
Born in Boston, he had lived in Roslindale and then South Boston for many years. He moved to North Attleboro in April.
Mr. Trudeau worked as a car wash attendant and then as a furniture stripper. He later worked as a dishwasher at the LaFayette House in Foxboro.
He was a communicant of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church in North Attleboro.
He enjoyed building things, including shelves and sailboats. He loved the holiday season, when he would decorate his home and dress as Santa Claus.
Mr. Trudeau is survived by his wife of 14 years, Grace M. (Palmer); two daughters, Kathleen M. McCarthy of North Attleboro and Grace F. McCormick of Hanover; two sons, Albert P. McCormick of Jamaica Plain and Robert J. McCormick Jr. of North Attleboro; a sister, Dorothy McCormack of Jamaica Plain; nine grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and several extended family members.
Boston Strip Clubs: An inside look at Massachusetts prison life
Monday, November 14th, 2011When I arrived with a photographer at the medium-security prison, our presence seemed to be known by every inmate within moments of our arrival. Inmates were eager to talk to us, and we interviewed whomever we chose – aging brothers serving a life sentence for a joint-venture murder, a repentant father of four convicted of dealing drugs, a couple during visiting hours who described how they maintained a relationship through his three decades in prison.
Our escorts refused to allow us to interview just one inmate, a prisoner who said he had been in the same dorm room as Tamik Kirkland, who had escaped from the nearby minimum-security prison a few months before and allegedly shot a man to death. They claimed it was for legal reasons.
Among the inmates we met in medium security was Joseph Labriola, 66, one of the few who succeeded in escaping from a Massachusetts prison. A decade after he was incarcerated for killing a drug dealer in 1973, he spent 93 days on the lam, before the FBI captured him living with a stripper in Nevada.
Boston Strip Clubs: Lords of Salem Art Presents Frankenstein vs. The Witchfinder
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011News
Lords of Salem Art Presents Frankenstein vs. The Witchfinder
Source:Ryan Turek, Managing Editor
Something Rob Zombie clearly had fun doing, when he made Halloween II, was creating minor details or periphery characters. The drunken horror host for instance. Or the strip club owner turned town-favorite Frankenstein. Zombie used these creations on his blog to herald the arrival of his sequel, now the writer-director has begun his viral campaign for The Lords of Salem.
Today, he posted – on his Facebook page – the poster for the faux fright flick Frankenstein vs. The Witchfinder. Zombie writes:
FRANKENSTEIN VS THE WITCHFINDER ! Coming Soon to a theater near you! That is if you live in Salem, MA! This amazing lost classic starring Udo Kier, Clint Howard, Daniel Roebuck and Camille Keaton is being screening at the WIQZ Freak-Fest. Don’t miss it. One night only!
Boston Strip Clubs: Heat Index: 2011 has been full of shame in college football
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011… Hurricane Nevin: From his prison cell, a Miami booster named Nevin Shapiro revealed to Yahoo! Sports that he had lavished more than a million dollars on some 70 Hurricanes football and basketball players over an eight-year period.
Oh yeah. He got the money by operating a ponzi scheme involving groceries.
So . . . would you like to pay for that stripper with paper or plastic?
-Â The Veer Offense: Top-ranked LSU and sixth-ranked Oregon are under scrutiny for their dealings with Willie Lyles, operator of a Texas “scouting service.” The question is whether Slick Willie was convincing players to veer toward programs paying for his “service.”
-Â The Fiesta Frolic: Right here in our backyard, Fiesta Bowl CEO John Junker was canned amid investigations into misconduct and misspending, which included allegations of illegal campaign contributions, lavish spending on a party and the obligatory trip to a strip club.
Boston Strip Clubs: Talking Hoops Ep. 9: Author Scott Raab on LeBron, Cleveland and what it means …
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011I mean I think you can. Seeing everyone remembers that that coming out party that the he’s held that day. Ridiculously to strip club. And and — brought afterwards everyone remembers that not four not five not six but before that. Before that say YouTube clip that — the whole thing. He was talking about how easy it’s going to be that Pat Riley could come back and play pointers that’s how he would keep his seat Dwyane Wade staring sideways in Dwyane Wade won a championship. I don’t know of any guy in any sport. Has ever. Made any kind of claim that it would be easy because it may — I don’t care what your field of endeavor is you wanna get to the top. It’s a long hard struggle I don’t know that the brought even begins diplomats around the brought accountable for anything LeBron does that is in great.
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Boston Strip Clubs: Cheeky killers, merry widows, and Puritans gone wild
Saturday, October 29th, 2011… They were just phenomenal dancers,” said Babydolls choreographer and performer Betty Blaize, who was a guest star at the Halloween show. “We cast them in our ‘V for Vixen’ show and they performed with us for a season, before leaving to do their own thing.”
Their own thing turned out to be the Betsi Feathers. The troupe is named after an imaginary all-girl rock band Cowper and Sacco invented using the name of a former choreographer, and today it contains six members. In addition to Cowper and Sacco, there’s Emily Hilly (Velvette Revolver) and Leanne Annese (Lacey Lou), both from Peabody, Tyla Timmons (Dahlia Beddin), originally from Salem and now Exeter, N. H., and Derek Melcher (Jack the Stripper) of Danvers. Chris Fitzpatrick, another friend of Sacco and Cowper, played Rev the emcee.
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Boston Strip Clubs: Boston Red Sox: 20 Biggest Deviants in Franchise History
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011Bill “Spaceman” Lee If the nickname “Spaceman” doesn’t say enough then I’m not sure what does. Bill Lee spoke whatever crossed his mind whether it had to do with politics or the team that he played for.He constantly argued with manager Don Zimmer over the pitching staff, and his comments on management later led to a trade to Montreal. Lee won 94 games in his 10 seasons in Boston.
Mo Vaughn was most known in Boston for putting his elbow in the strike zone during his at bats and powering home runs to right field. Vaughn was also very much against management and sports writers. He felt that general manager Dan Duquette didn’t like him being around.
Allegations of Vaughn punching a man outside a Providence strip club also led to many feuds with Red Sox administration.Vaughn hit 230 home runs in his eight seasons in Boston. He won the MVP in 1995 and was voted to the All-Star game three times.