We’re encouraged to see this past Wednesday’s release of a set of big-picture recommendations for rethinking downtown State Street.
Though rocked by the pandemic and a nearly 30% vacancy rate, the street is still one of the city’s most important thoroughfares, and one of the most resilient — repurposing itself as an arts, retail and academic corridor after surviving the near-cataclysmic loss of six of its seven flagship retail stores between the 1970s and 1990s.
