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Developers have said that the Combat Zone can bridge the geographic gap between downtown and Back Bay. The transformation of the Zone from the sleazy place it is today to a vibrant part of the Boston economy can only be a good thing for both the city and the state...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Down and Out in the Zone | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...someday, when the drug-addicted prostitutes have disappeared along with the junkies in the alley-ways, when the Combat Zone is as long-gone as old Scollay Square, I might even want to have an office there...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Down and Out in the Zone | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

WHEN Andy Puopolo '77 was stabbed and killed after going to a strip joint back in 1976, the Combat Zone housed 39 adult entertainment places and covered several city blocks. Now only a shadow of what it once was, the Zone contains fewer than 11 adult entertainment stores and only three strip clubs, extending barely one block...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: The Combat Zone: Cleaning Up Its Act? | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...Combat Zone, the cliches are reality: a man sleeps crumpled in a doorway holding a bottle in a brown paper...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: The Combat Zone: Cleaning Up Its Act? | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...vultures are opportunists who wait for anything to happen to their advantage," the officer says. The vultures include pickpockets, drug dealers, and others who prey on the weak in the Combat Zone...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: The Combat Zone: Cleaning Up Its Act? | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

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