Baker wants to sell Hynes for redevelopment, use proceeds to expand South Boston convention center

To stop calling that stop Auditorium. What next!

Here's the list of current T Stops which will soon be unrelated to their names [note that there have already been many changes in names such as Scollay Sq [of Charlie on the MTA fame] to Government Center

The ones currently on the list for disconnection between name and function:

1. Auditorium -- only loosely connected to the original John Hynes Veterans Memorial Auditorium -- currently the Hynes Convention Center -- soon to be ????
2. Suffolk Downs -- named after a famous race track -- well famous at one time -- purported to be a future 2nd Amazon HQ -- -- soon to be ????
3. Wonderland named after a once famous movie venue -- er Dog Track -- soon to be ????
4. World Trade Center -- named after a convention venue located inside the once famous Commonwealth Pier -- then the never to be BOSCOM -- then the World Trade Center -- the only trading done was connected with Fidelity Investments -- soon to be more Fidelity Investments
5. Kendall -- named originally for the Kendall Boiler and Tank Company whose building still exists -- though re purposed for something other than heavy industry -- for a while known as Kendall / MIT / Cambridge Center -- MIT part still there and growing -- Cambridge Center is growing but no longer known as Cambridge Center even though it is more and more the key part of Cambridge -- especially since it was colonized by Google -- a significantly growing presence -- so we should perhaps call it Kendall [for the KSA -- aka "the Future Lives Here"] / MIT / Google???
6. Lechemere*1 -- might as well throw this one in -- named after a near by geographical landmark which gave its name to another geographic landmark as new land was created on the Cambridge side from what had been the back bay of the Charles [a tidal river all the way to Watertown] -- but its only in Boston story is complicated further by the fact that the station itself is getting ready to move -- it all began as a British land grant to a Richard Lechemere [a loyalist / royalist who fled Cambridge] who owned land where the land ended and the river began -- Lechemere's Point*2 -- aka where the "2 if by Sea Brits" landed to begin their trek to Lexington and Global History -- which eventually turned into the name of an intersection of Cambridge and 1st St -- Lechemere Square --- then the location of one end of the Lechemere Viaduct [circa 1910] carrying what was then a main line Trolley operated by the Boston Electric Railway [BERY] and is now known as the route of the Green Line from near North Station where it emerges from underground [replacing the Causeway Street Elevated carrying the Trolleys from where they had previously emerged near North Station at Canal St.] and on to Cambridge at Science Park [aka the MOS] --- the the name then was used for the the eponymous and one could say the "First Discount Department Store" -- aka Lechemere Sales -- now the tracks on the Cambridge end of the old Viaduct and the station are moving into the old Boston and Maine Railroad yard to accommodate the Green Line eXtension to Somerville and Medford -- the site of the old station will be sold for redevelopment into ??????
7. Airport -- Station moved -- but Airport while larger didn't move -- although its still a trek by bus or on foot to the actual Airport Terminals -- although with further Airport Expansion -- the T may be connected more directly with one of the terminals???
8. Downtown Crossing*3 -- artificial name created to consolidate a number of individual entrances [principally on or near to Washington Street and Summer and Winter Streets] into a single station for both the Red and the Orange Lines with a pedestrian tunnel connection to Park Street and the Green Line

   Would truly achieve its name of DTX -- if a short pedestrian tunnel was built from DTX [Orange - Red with pedestrian tunnel to Green] to State [Orange to Blue] allowing a single entrance to provide access to all of the Rapid Transit lines

*1 Lechmere Station
from wiki

When the Tremont Street Subway fully opened in 1898, surface cars entering the subway from Cambridge Street and Bridge Street in East Cambridge had to cross Craigie's Bridge and proceed on surface streets to the Canal Street Incline. The trip from Lechmere Point over the bridge was slow and prone to delays. After five years of construction, the Lechmere Viaduct and Causeway Street Elevated opened on June 1, 1912, providing the streetcar routes from Harvard Square and much of Somerville a direct route into the subway.[4]

The surface lines that fed into the subway via Lechmere Square had poor schedule reliability, which became a larger issue as the Tremont Street Subway and connecting lines became a rapid transit service in its own right rather than merely a collection of existing streetcar lines. On July 10, 1922, the Boston Elevated Railway opened a prepayment station at Lechmere

*2 Lechemere Point and Square
from the wiki

Lechmere Square (pronounced /ˈliːtʃmɪr/ "leech-meer") is located at the intersection of Cambridge Street and First Street in East Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was originally named for the Colonial-era landowner Richard Lechmere, a Loyalist who returned to England at the beginning of the American Revolution. His lands were later seized by the new American government. The shoreline is shown as "Lechmere's Point" on Revolutionary War maps, and was the landing point for British troops en route to the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

The area was developed by land speculator Andrew Craigie in the early 19th century.

Craigie also built a bridge over the Charles River from Cambridge to Boston which today is in much diminished length but is also much wider identified with the Craigie Drawbridge over the remnant of the old Lechemere Canal connecting the Charles River above the old Charles River Dam with the Charles River stretch between the Old Charles River Dam and the New Charles River Dam -- aka the "Lost Half Mile"

*3 Downtown Crossing
from the wikipedia

Stations on the tunnel were built in pairs with different names and separate entrances, an appeasement to merchants on the street who desired maximal pedestrian traffic. Stations were located at Summer northbound with entrances at Summer Street and Franklin Street, and Winter southbound with entrances at Winter Street and Temple Place.

The Dorchester Extension of the Cambridge Tunnel (now the Red Line) was built one level below the Washington Street Tunnel. Washington station opened on April 4, 1915, with additional entrances on Summer Street at Hawley Street and Chauncey Street.

As part of a system-wide rebranding by the newly formed MBTA, on January 23, 1967 the Orange Line platforms were renamed Washington as well. On May 3, 1987, the name was changed again to Downtown Crossing after the surrounding retail district.