[Info-vax] OT. Auction of Maynard's Clock Tower Place

[William Pechter]

In article <cmo3uuFnj9aU1 at mid.individual.net>,
Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>In article <me4b3m$5ui$1 at dont-email.me>,
>	Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>> On 2015-03-15, brendan welch <w1lpg at uml.edu> wrote:
>>> In the Boston Sunday Globe newspaper, I saw this
>>> auction notice.
>>>
>>> ...
>>> MAYNARD - Clock Tower Place
>>> 42.96 +/- Acres of Land/ 12 Office Bldgs
>>> ...
>>> Thursday March 26
>>> ...
>> 
>> I wonder what happened to all the businesses which had set up home
>> there ?
>
>They could still be there and their leases would go with the building.
>
>> 
>> Are there any rules in the US about preservation of buildings of
>> historical interest and if so, has any such designation been applied
>> to the Mill's buildings ?
>
>Other than people here, who would see historical value in one of over a
>hundred computer companies that have failed in the past 3 decades?
>
>I doubt you could find 5 people on the street who even know what DEC
>means or who Digital was. (Trust me, I have asked people who work in
>the business and those younger than me have no idea.)
>
>bill
>
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Actually, there's a bit longer memory up in Ma. about Digital... or 
DEC. 

There's a lot of folks whose relatives worked there or at a DEC supplier or 
reseller.

Now in NJ -- no one remembers them anymore.

We're going through the conversion of Bell Labs, Holmdel to a combination of
retirement housing, mixed commercial use and whatever.   We're having the same
problems finding buyers for large office and industrial properties, since the
maintaining of large numbers of staffers has fallen out of fashion.

I was at IBM when they went from 13 bldgs in the Princeton, NJ area to 
one and now zero.

Bill
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