The Prudential Center renewal brings back new restaurants, stores, and pedestrians.
Since it opened in 1965, the Prudential Center has been trying to get its mix of retail tenants right and not always succeeding - at least from the standpoint of a city planner. The center has generated plenty of money from its office-building tenants and the residents in its high rises, but if the goal was also to use a combination of retail, housing, offices, and restaurants to knit itself into the fabric of the city, signs of success came only after developers abandoned their original plan of operating a complex that had more in common with suburban malls than its Back Bay neighborhood.
Thanks to Sarah Perz
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