[MassHistPres] Arlington Building

[Heather Falcone]

The Arlington Building, also known as the Shreve, Crump, and Low  
Building is getting another hearing in front of Boston Landmark  
Commission on this Monday, November 10 at 5:30 PM.  The meeting will  
be held in the BRA Board Room #900, 9th floor at 1 City Hall Square.

The building had been denied landmark status previously due to being  
of only local historical importance and is now being reviewed as to  
whether the building may hold greater significance nationally and  
internationally due to its Art Deco facade.  I have followed this  
process and attended previous meetings.  The building that the  
developer Ron Druker is proposing for this very important site in  
Boston (on the corner of the Public Garden and next to Old South  
Meeting House) is mediocre at best, and certainly not worthy of  
destruction of this fine building, and several smaller old buildings.

It is my hope that if many people show up to this meeting perhaps  
Boston Landmarks will reconsider it's previous position.  It certainly  
doesn't seem to make sense in these uncertain economic times to  
destroy existing usable properties to build an enormous new structure  
that may remain empty.

Thank you,

Heather Falcone