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Your View: 'Ink Block' Slated for Former Boston Herald Offices

The property's new owner, National Development, outlined a plan that includes shops, restaurants, a grocery store and hundreds of apartments.

The former Boston Herald site on the edge of South End is slated to become the "Ink Block" if National Development's plans go forward, according to a Boston Globe article.  

The developer's proposal is a plan to "replace the Herald’s squat brick building with four new structures containing 475 apartments, a grocery store, and a mix of smaller shops and restaurants," and in the article it's mentioned that local architecture firm Elkus Manfredi, "has designed the complex to be like an authentic city block by planning buildings with different heights and a mix of materials, textures, and colors."

The current design approach may have been a result of an "earlier proposal for a smaller project that neighbors panned as uninspired and too suburban," and this time the project's "signature building" is going to be a "nine-story glass apartment building at the corner of Herald Street and Harrison Avenue."

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