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City buys China Trade Center, aims to transform Combat Zone
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In a move that Mayor Flynn said signals the start of an intensive
12-month plan to convert the Combat Zone to a new Asian-business
center, the city yesterday purchased the landmark China Trade Center
building on the corner of Boylston and Washington Streets.
The zone, Boston's infamous red-light district of X-rated movie
theaters and strip joints, has been targeted for city takeover since
the November 1976 stabbing death of Harvard football player Andrew
Puopolo.
Despite thwarted...
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COMBAT ZONE'S DEMISE FORESEEN
The Boston Globe
; The possibility that a new 30-story apartment building will banish one of the two remaining strip clubs in the infamous Combat Zone has Mayor Thomas M. Menino and hopeful Chinatown residents talking about the end of Boston's red-light district. Kensington Investment Co., the developer of the
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Not all pay received while serving in combat zone is tax free.(ARMED FORCES)
The Kiplinger Tax Letter
; Not all pay received while serving in a combat zone is tax free. The pay must accrue during combat zone service, the Service says in a private ruling. Therefore, a soldier who reenlists while serving outside of a combat zone can't exclude the reenlistment bonus if it's paid while he or she is in a
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City, Combat Zone owner allies on demolition loan
The Boston Globe
; Mayor Flynn said yesterday his administration is working to help a Combat Zone landlord obtain bank loans to demolish buildings that contain two of the zone's last remaining adult-entertainment facilities. Flynn also said that as part of an overall city effort to improve the blighted blocks of
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PROJECTS TO REPLACE COMBAT ZONE
The Journal Record
; BOSTON - Fifteen years ago, when the operators of peep shows and pornographic bookstores were threatening to open shop in colonial brownstones on Beacon Hill, it seemed like a good idea for the city to create a special zone for adult entertainment that would keep such things away from the eyes of
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TWO LANDMARK BUILDINGS IN THE COMBAT ZONE ARE SOON TO BE DEMOLISHED, AND WITH THEM SOME IRREPLACEABLE HISTORY Virtue in a vice zone?
The Boston Globe
; Adrian Walker is a member of the Globe staff. Can a building be punished for its use? Can a building that has housed strip shows, peep shows and adult movies be denied landmark status largely because of its history? Can the complaints of a neighborhood supersede the right to free speech, even if
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