Word: landed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back Bay's attractiveness was no accident-it was carefully planned even before the creation of the land Back Bay occupies. As the Museum's two introductory slide shows explain, the Back Bay, like 60 per cent of downtown Boston, was built on fill. Beginning in 1857, railroad cars brought gravel from Needham every hour, day and night. After more than 30 years the entire area from the Boston Public Garden past Massachusetts Avenue to Charlesgate and south as far as Huntington and Columbus Avenues had been filled to a depth of twenty feet...
White said he will not support an MBTA proposal to buy 24 acres of land in South Boston until the city is guaranteed continuing tax revenues from the land...
Last Friday, the MBTA announced an agreement to buy the land from the Penn Central Railroad for $7 million...
...This year Penn Central paid almost $200,000 in property taxes on this South Boston land." White said. "I want to guarantee that the city will receive at least this amount in the future, and I am convinced that the property could produce even more tax revenue...
Under the agreement, the MBTA will pay the Penn Central $7 million for a tract of land near South Station in Boston, and will relocate the car barns there...