Word: waterfronts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Blunt-mannered Helen Delich Bentley, 56, wife of an antiques dealer, covered the waterfront for 16 years as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun. Her salty language and dukes-up style endeared her to dock workers. She once punched a stevedore in a bar when he compared her nose to a ski jump. Her expletives-undeleted report from the tanker Manhattan, during its 1969 voyage through the Northwest Passage, caused her to be banned from using the ship's radio...
From 1960-67, Logue served as the development administrator of the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA). In those eight years, he built Government Center and the new Boston City Hall, laid out the plans for Quincy Market and extensive developments along Boston's waterfront, spurred numerous private developments in downtown Boston, and constructed thousands of low-and moderate-income housing units in urban renewal areas that covered 25 per cent of the entire city...
...ubiquitous and often intrusive microphones in the Joe Louis Arena not only broadcast both true and false details of the bargaining but influenced the actors trying to shape history in the glass-walled suites of the 73-story Detroit Plaza Hotel, which towers above the city's scenic waterfront...
...limits. The outspoken Young, for example, does not hesitate in public to rib his good friend Henry Ford II. When the former Ford Motor Co. boss complained in a speech that the 73-story Detroit Plaza Hotel, the showpiece of the city's celebrated Renaissance Center complex along the waterfront, might be doing nicely in attracting conventions but was not producing enough "transient business," Young took a microphone to declare: "Hank the Deuce just told us we gotta start hot-sheetin' it at the hotel...
...redevelopment of the waterfront area has been economically successful, although critics differ over its aesthetic appeal. The main cluster of new buildings is the $350 million Renaissance Center, consisting of five glass towers containing office space and topped by the spectacular Detroit Plaza Hotel. The center has helped the city raise its convention revenues from $56 million in 1970 to a projected $115 million this year. More than 90% of the center's office space is rented. Although the complex looks a bit like a mother ship from Star Wars?or perhaps because of the fact?visitors flock...