Although change can sometimes be difficult to accept, I think that everyone would agree that the changes now apparent on Washington Street, just south of Downtown Crossing are for the better. In 1985, if you told me the Ritz Carlton would open a high rise luxury condominium and hotel in Boston’s Combat Zone, I would have found that hard to believe.
Gone are the ugly, cement street lights, and the seedy peep show houses like Boston Bunnies and the Pilgrim movie house. Now this corner hosts a very busy Dunkin Donuts, the Boston Registry of Motor Vehicles and a high rise apartment building. Hopefully more change will come a few blocks north in Downtown Crossing where the Filene’s building once stood but now is a construction site that remains devoid of activity.
Thanks to Boston Real Estate Broker for posting these photos.
BosGuy 
Now it’s full of studio apartment’s going for $3000 a month. I wouldn’t call that a good change. The Zone had a lot of character and nobody was forcing anyone to do business there. They had a market. Now it looks like every other street in Boston. Do we really need another dunking donuts? The Chinese from china town complained for years about the zone and now that it’s gone they’re complainin about being priced out? Be careful what you ask for. The irony is there more prostitution going on in the massage parlors in Chinatown than ever went on in the old zone. Plus drugs being sold in China Town and the assasanation of those 4 Chinese guys during a poker game. They’re not exactly a wholesome community themselves.
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