Re: Boston Globe Real Estate Article on Emerson College

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 01:15 PM 7/19/2003, Laurence Glavin wrote:
>Today's Boston Globe (07/19) has an article in the Real Estate
>section about the burgeoning presence of Emerson College near
>the Common.  This may be a bit off-topic, but the article does
>mention that one of the newly refurbished buildings will
>house "state-of-the-art" facilities for the school's radio
>station. (It doesn't mention WERS by name, but since this is the
>Globe, they probably would have gotten them wrong anyway.)
>The URL is:
>
>http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/200/realestate/Emerson_takes_center_stage_at_Midtown+.shtml
>
>Laurence Glavin


Your post threw me a little there, Laurence, since WERS already HAS 
state-of-the-art studios; the facilities in the Ansin building next door to 
the Loews movie theater are to die for.

Reading the article a little closer:
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Now, the 3,200-student communications and performing arts college is at a 
watershed. Last week, Emerson won final city approval to build a $75 
million, 600-bed dormitory on the Piano Row section of Boylston Street in 
the Theater District. Construction is to start next winter. And by Labor 
Day, Emerson is scheduled to open its $35 million Tufte Performance and 
Production Center. State-of-the-art broadcast studios, two small theaters, 
dressing rooms, and loading docks will be shared with the Cutler Majestic 
Theatre at Emerson College, a 1,200-seat Beaux Arts venue built in 1903 
that reopened in May, after a $14 million restoration.

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I suspect what they're talking about is a system by which they'll be able 
to do radio theater in the new building and pipe it back over to the 
existing WERS studios for broadcast and/or further editing.   I strongly 
doubt that they're planning on moving WERS again.  (and apologies if that's 
not what you were thinking!)

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