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Nope. Government Center is the product of the urban renewal of the West End in the 1950s-1960s. Before Government Center was there, the area was known as Scollay Square.
"The Combat Zone" was the nickname given to the Chinatown/Theater District/Downtown Crossing area in the 1970s-1990s, which functioned as the city's red-light district, with a lot of strip clubs. The strip clubs are mostly gone nowadays and a lot of residential towers are being built there now.
And I agree with the last part. Boston hit it's all time low earlier in the 20th century, so the cleanup that the city has experienced between 1994 and 2014 hasn't been as drastic as in places like Philly and LA. I just wanted to show that DT Boston has changed a lot in that time period, too, even if the change is less dramatic.
Right, Scollay Square. That was a bit of a red light district too back in the day.
Chicago has improved in parts, but it is the consensus #2 downtown in the US, and has been for decades. Based on that, I don't think it qualifies as most improved IMO.
No - River North and South Loop were essentially **** holes with flop houses, hookers, adult theaters, porn shops, homeless people, etc etc. Even the very south part of the Loop was sketch. It's improved a lot in those areas. A ton.
I need to scour for some pics of what the area used to look like - it's a lot different. Go back a few pages and read what Rick Bayless said about the area about 20 years ago. "Very, very sleazy."
here's a whole bunch of (far away) pics of Dallas Downtown & Uptown together.
I need to go snap some of my own to get an UPDATED, UPDATED view.
but this is all Last year: Better skyline Houston or Dallas?
Philly. The rest of the city still has a long ways to go though.
Not the rest. Just about half of West Philly and most of Southwest and North Philly.
South Philly, half of West Philly, Northwest Philly, Northeast Philly, the Riverwards are all doing well and Lower North Philly from Temple University down is either in great shape or drastically improving.
Most of the downtrodden areas that need drastic improving are in West/Southwest Philly and North Central
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