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In the heart of the
Boston Financial District is a glorious gem
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of a greenspace, a 1.7 acre patch surrounded by skyscrapers --
Post Office Square's
Leventhal Park -- whose motto is
Park Above, Park Below! What's especially compelling about it is that not only are there
7-stories of parking spaces for 1,400 cars underground, but the greenery above and storage below replaced a fugly, squat 4-story concrete eyesore of a parking structure...
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Central to this privately funded and organized transformation was MIT alumnus entrepreneur and urban visionary
Norman Leventhal who championed the
project!
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