There is a hole in the heart of downtown Boston where a historic department store used to be, and a brand new skyscraper should be taking form. The company in charge of the One Franklin project has been known to leave projects stalled indefinitely in order to force a city's hand to fund the project itself, rather than put up its own money. The mayor - the entire city - is livid as a nascent monument to progress and prosperity signifies the opposite in its absence.

