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Coming soon: towers and a shopping plaza over the Pike in Back Bay

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image of proposed plan for newbury street plaza project set to debut this summer

WBUR, April 2024

A major new shopping plaza set to open at the western end of Newbury Street this summer. Ted Landsmark, director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, Catherine Carlock, real estate and development reporter for the Boston Globe, and Jeff Speck, partner at the city planning firm Speck Dempsey, join Radio Boston to discuss the Parcel 12 project.

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