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Shirley Leung: Seaport is Boston's Innovation District. Somewhere Tom Menino is saying ‘I told you so'
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In 2010, when much of the Seaport District was a sea of forlorn parking lots, Mayor Thomas Menino, in what would be his final inaugural address, rechristened the area the “Innovation District.”
He laid out a new approach to developing the South Boston Waterfront, describing it as “one that is both more deliberate and more experimental.”
The rebranded moniker never did stick, but the late mayor’s aspirations have come to fruition. Amazon announced last week an expansion in the Seaport that would fill a planned tower with 3,000 employees. That’s on top of the 2,000 jobs Amazon is adding in an adjacent building already under construction.
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