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Boston’s Seaport could soon get 2,100 new parking spots

A parking lot by Congress Street and Seaport Boulevard, before the area was bustling with development. David L. Ryan / Boston Globe

By The Boston Globe

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Not long ago, the Seaport District was mostly parking lots catering to suburban commuters who didn’t want to pay downtown Boston prices or use public transit.

But the glass boxes that have sprung up in the past decade inexorably changed the parking calculus on the South Boston Waterfront, to the point where the area is at risk of having too few spaces.

Now, two big garage projects, each subsidized by a government agency, are being teed up to help ease the crunch.

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