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Views of the steeple at Park Street Church and the State House, such as from a 7th-floor condominium at 43 Winter St., are a major selling point in the area.

The Ladder District is looking up

Condos and dorms are making a location into a neighborhood; the Combat Zone has never seemed farther away

By Tina Cassidy
Globe Correspondent / June 11, 2006

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For five years it has seemed like the only people who actually lived near Downtown Crossing were the homeless sleeping on park benches or the wealthy in their aeries above the city at the Ritz towers. (Full article: 948 words)

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