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Of all the many examples of Boston changing its skyline, the most symbolic is the Millennium Tower, shooting up from a big hole in the ground that was once the Filene’s Basement building. In the shadow of the big dig, at the end of the nation’s economic collapse in 2008, Boston was a maze of crumbled bridges, cracked highways and decrepit buildings, decaying and empty in gritty back streets. According to the Boston Redevelopment Authority (B.R.A.) about 70 construction projects are just finishing, are ongoing or starting in Boston — including the Boston Landing New Balance headquarters developments, one of the biggest and important new buildings erected in the city in Of all the many examples of Boston changing its skyline, the most symbolic is the Millennium Tower, shooting up from a big hole in the ground that was once the decades. As B.R.A. Director Brian Filene’s Basement building. Golden recently said to WBUR, a major media outlet in the heart of downtown, “We’re going and new corporate headquarters, such as the greatly-anticithrough what is arguably the biggest building boom in the pated Millennium Tower, rising from what Golden called a huge scar in Boston’s earth. history of the city of Boston.” “The heart of downtown Boston had a gargantuan crater in it for years and that vexed city hall and the B.R.A. tremenDowntown Projects The irony is not lost on Golden or his colleagues at the dously,” said Golden. “So, to see one of the tallest buildings B.R.A. Boston has always had the reputation as one of the in Boston growing from that site is a really important sign of most difficult cities to traverse — with no logic in its road Boston’s economic resiliency and recovery. That really removed a psychological wound and sent a signal…that we plan, narrow, one-way boulevards and no parking. What is gratifying to Golden and other members of his were back and better than before.” group is that more than a dozen projects are centered in the Unexpected Community Advantages downtown and other core neighborhoods — 14 in South When the economy collapsed at the end of 2008, projects Boston and the waterfront or seaport districts. These projects include high-rise, high-end housing com- defaulted and lost financing. The B.R.A. said the permitting plexes, housing for middle income people in the workforce see SKYLINE page 4